xp search new 'FEATURE'.

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as a new XP user i am flabbergasted how this OS is
severely degraded for a resource i have used for years.

the search files/folder tool was (earlier windows)an
incredible method of finding strings scattered throughout
a folder branch. now with this version, and
the 'improvement' of file type filtering it no longer
serves in this fashion. help references to articles about
this infer complex changes to the registry etc. and it is
still not clear if they can work for all files .... i want
to search ANY file. the filtering could be nice (as
speedup)if it could be turned off.

for example .. i often need to search a large group of
*.vhd (vhdl text files) but now they need to get added
somehow to the filter ... and so on ... WHAT A PAIN!
 
as a new XP user i am flabbergasted how this OS is
severely degraded for a resource i have used for years.

the search files/folder tool was (earlier windows)an
incredible method of finding strings scattered throughout
a folder branch. now with this version, and
the 'improvement' of file type filtering it no longer
serves in this fashion. help references to articles about
this infer complex changes to the registry etc. and it is
still not clear if they can work for all files .... i want
to search ANY file. the filtering could be nice (as
speedup)if it could be turned off.

for example .. i often need to search a large group of
*.vhd (vhdl text files) but now they need to get added
somehow to the filter ... and so on ... WHAT A PAIN!
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For a search engine that actually works, get Agent Ransack free from
www.agentransack.com. There is also an even more capable shareware
version,File Locator Pro, available from a link on that site.
HTH,
John
"Any sufficiently advanced technology is indistinguishable from magic"
***Arthur C. Clarke***
 
In the Search window, click
Change Preferences -> Change Files And Folders Search Behaviour -> Advanced

Hope this gives you the options you need.

BTW, even in the Standard (default) behaviour, you could search within, for
example, only .vhd files, by choosing
All Files And Folders -> "*.vhd" in All Or Part Of The File Name -> "search
string" in A Word Or Phrase In The File.

- Rajesh
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iser said:
as a new XP user i am flabbergasted how this OS is
severely degraded for a resource i have used for years.
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It seems to have arisen because of he move towards Unicode. Quite a lot
of files around are in Unicode; and utilities like NotePad/Wordpad can
read and generate text files in it. So the search wants either to know
that the file is pure text (so then any two byte 00xx to 0Fxx are
Unicode characters) or that there is a 'filter' registered to strip out
such things where they are formatting codes. And not many fie types are
registered in either category. You can easily add an extension to the
'pure text' with the patch

REGEDIT4

[HKEY_CLASSES_ROOT\.log\PersistentHandler]
@="{5e941d80-bf96-11cd-b579-08002b30bfeb}"

(for .log in that case) or use a third party tool that does not try to
deal in Unicode - which is what most people do
 
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