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Running Vista Home Premium on Compaq Presario notebook
This is my first Vista machine and I find its inability to do a "proper"
search a stunning shortcoming. Or am I missing some secret setting?
Scenario- I want to do a search of my entire hard drive for a file. I only
know the extension so I enter .snf and the results are 1 file found. Wrong!
First of all, the results don't show me the complete path to the file.
Instead of displaying C:\Users\owner\Documents, it displays C:\Users\owner.
That's it. I either have to flail around and manually check all the owner
folders or right click and look at the file's properties. Why won't Vista
display the FULL path to the file?
Secondly, and this is really disappointing, is that I KNOW there are at
least 70 more .snf files on my C drive that Vista apparently can't locate! !
I never had this search problem with XP. You ask XP and it tells all.
Simple. So what gives with Vista?
Is there some way to make Vista do a COMPLETE search and display ALL found
files with FULL PATHS?? Isn't this what computers were designed to help us
do?
This is my first Vista machine and I find its inability to do a "proper"
search a stunning shortcoming. Or am I missing some secret setting?
Scenario- I want to do a search of my entire hard drive for a file. I only
know the extension so I enter .snf and the results are 1 file found. Wrong!
First of all, the results don't show me the complete path to the file.
Instead of displaying C:\Users\owner\Documents, it displays C:\Users\owner.
That's it. I either have to flail around and manually check all the owner
folders or right click and look at the file's properties. Why won't Vista
display the FULL path to the file?
Secondly, and this is really disappointing, is that I KNOW there are at
least 70 more .snf files on my C drive that Vista apparently can't locate! !
I never had this search problem with XP. You ask XP and it tells all.
Simple. So what gives with Vista?
Is there some way to make Vista do a COMPLETE search and display ALL found
files with FULL PATHS?? Isn't this what computers were designed to help us
do?