I've always resorted to console based searching since XP, because it is much faster and more accurate.
-ASB: http://XeeSM.com/AndrewBaker On Thu, Sep 17, 2009 at 1:06 PM, Ben Scott <[email protected]> wrote: > On Thu, Sep 17, 2009 at 12:07 PM, Steven M. Caesare > <[email protected]> wrote: > > This is on Win7. I'm sure this works on Win2K3/Xp too. > > On the Win XP Pro SP2 box I'm tying this on right now, the built-in > "Search" finds a string in TEST.TXT and TEST.ASP, but not TEST.CSV or > TEST.FOO. FINDSTR finds all four. > > Apparently, despite the fact that I told "Search" to look for files > matching *.*, Search still only searches some file extensions. > Thanks, Microsoft! > > I'm remember Vista working the same way, but don't feel like firing > up a VM to check. > > -- Ben > > ~ Finally, powerful endpoint security that ISN'T a resource hog! ~ ~ <http://www.sunbeltsoftware.com/Business/VIPRE-Enterprise/> ~
