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Where's the Right-click Search option? 1

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cpjust

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Sep 23, 2003
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In every previous version of Windows, I can right-click a folder in Windows Explorer and click Search to find a file starting from that directory. I don't see that in Vista. What the hell??
 
Search in Vista is a different animal compared to previous systems. There is no right-click context menu by design.

Tips for finding files

If you want to have such a context menu, I suppose there are registry edits available. I use Agent Ransack as an additional search engine and that is accessible via a right-click.


search with wildcards
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Make sure you are Indexing correctly, look at Indexing Options in the Control Panel, this will improve your searching.
 
Cool, I'll take a look at those when I get some time.
Thanks.
 
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