searching for file contents with Vista is a nightmare
I understand Vista search is more powerful, but with XP I used to navigate through windows explorer, find a folder name,...
searching for files by extension
I want to search for a file based on extension e.g. .pst When using vista's built in search and putting *.pst in the nam...
Searching network drives?
Hello. Still trying to figure out Vista as my work computer was recently upgraded from XP. In XP if I wanted to sea...
Searching for files
In older versions of Windows there was a clear 'Search' function to look for specific files (in specific drives). In Vi...
Searching for software
I just bought a new HP loaded with Vista basic. It is set up in an office for the 14 people to use. Unfortunately we can...
simple searching of file whose filenames has a particular wo
I have been using for Vista for a while, and sometimes i just want to search for a file in the folder whose filename has...
Searching problem
When I am trying to find files at this folder: C:\Users\Roope\Desktop\Roope\Musiikkia I cant find any, even when I know ...
searching text within word documents
would like to locate specific words in documents within folders, my computer, my network and this is making my life ver...
Searching in file contents of unindexed files
I've been using Vista 64 for about two months now and despite all of the negative press, I have been more than satisfie...
Searching by date
I do a manual backup each week of all my data files (Roxio and Vista automated backups haven't worked for me). I use th...
File System Searching With WinExplorer
== Using Vista SP2I have never much liked the Windows Explorer. Its file system searching, for example, is unintuitive...
Adobe Acrobat thumbnails disappear after searching
When I perform a search for keyword in a file that contains Adobe Acrobat documents, and then preview the file, the thu...
Contacts mail searching
Hi, Recently I needed to search my mail contacts for a phone number and couldn't find a easy way to do this. Would any ...
Searching for Credential Tiles but why
Have two computers an old AMD64 x2 3500+ w Vista Business and when running as a ltd user and I need to run something wi...
Adding a Note to a Contact and searching for it?
Hi, I have added a title in the note section to certain people in my contact list. I used to be able to search for the ...
Deleting, re-naming, searching, locks up
When I attempt to delete a file a window appears saying "Calculating time remaining" this just hangs; attempti...
Searching in Vista 64!
Hi!Today I searched a folder tree in size of 5GBytes for a filename with some text content.Vista 64 allocated 8GBytes of...
Searching a back-up drive
I have a question concerning Windows Vista. I am trying to recover an e-mail I received in Microsoft Office Outlook and...
Searching for ghost window software
I'm looking for some software that will let me run a video on my computer that is always on top and full screen, but st...
Searching Firefox bookmarks with WDS?
Hi,Is there some kind of add-on or a method that would allow me to search my Firefox bookmarks with Vista's Windows Desk...
File Searching based on content
I've got a hard copy of an Excel file but it doesn't have a title. I don't know the file name nor do I know the date t...
Need help, please: Searching network drive
I'm running Vista Home Premium, using (I think) Windows Search Ver 4. (How do I find out which version is running?)I've...
IE7 was freezing/searching for solution never found it..
But I think I may, she says crossing her fingers and touching wood, found the solution.It was getting frustrated as one...
Searching for phrase in a folder of documents
Is there a way to use the Vista search tool to search all the documents in a folder that contain a phrase or multiple c...
Searching file names only
Hi, In Vista Windows Explorer, I can't find a way to search ONLY the file names, not contents. It's painfully slow when ...
Searching these newsgroups
When I tried to search these newsgroups for my name, it never matches anything. It used to work fine before, but all o...
File searching and Virtual Store
I found some files in the VirtualStore directory that had been put there by my app that previously put them in its inst...
Searching File Folders
How do you search for emails by *from*, by *to* or by *text*?How do you search *all* folders?Herb... -- HerbH...
searching by filename
I tried to do a search for *.zip and got zero results. I tried to do a search for 'yawnmoth' and that time got quite a ...
any way to stop vista searching in the recycle bin
hi,whenever I do a search from explorer in vista (i.e. typing in the top right hand corner of the explorer window), it s...
searching
I've recently noticed that I can't search for Music files anymore within Vista. Whenever I type a music file I own into ...