Windows Search Not Functioning Correctly 1

[pickletech]

I am having trouble doing searches with the Windows search function. Whenever I do a search and choose to search 'A word or phrase in the file' it returns 0 results on Excel or Word documents. It will work fine looking for part of the file name, or looking within the file for text documents. Does anyone have any ideas?

 

[chipk]

http://support.microsoft.com/kb/309173/en-us

 

[linney]

Using the "A Word or Phrase in the File" Search Criterion May Not Work

http://support.microsoft.com/default.aspx?scid=kb;EN-US;Q309173

Content Search Does Not Search All File Types for the Specified String

http://support.microsoft.com/default.aspx?scid=kb;en-us;309447

Navigate to

http://www.dougknox.com/

and find this file and fix xp_persisthandler.vbs - Enable XP's "Search" to find text in files. It is reached via Win XP Fixes/ Win XP Search Problems/ Can't find files containing text.

 

[pickletech]

Thank you linney, the fix at

http://www.dougknox.com

worked!

 

[pickletech]

Oh, by the way, for anyone else having this problem, I used the XP_FileFilter tool, which allows unregistered extensions to be searched. The xp_persisthandler script actually did not work for me, but they are both on the same web page.

 

[bcastner]

Try Agent Ransack. This freeware utility has replaced the Windows search feature for me:

http://www.mythicsoft.com/agentransack/default.aspx