Hi Guys

I have a problem that still exists after I received the SP3 for XP.
I still cannot search for every file and folder. there are few issues that I
could not fix by myself yet

1- go to your windows host drive (the drive that you installed windows)
search for explorer.exe. After a few seconds or minutes or may be days it
will say "Search is complete. There is no result to display". Now goto
windows folder and type e, x, p and you are on it, the explorer.exe file. Now
go back to root folder and try searching "msmsgs.exe" same answer now go to
"\Program Files\Messenger" folder, thats it second file in list!

I want to force search to look in every folder including system folders like
windows and "program files"

I even tried to delete desktop.ini files from these folders but still no
success.

searchin every folder is usefull when you are searching for a virus running
in memory and you can see it in taskmanager and when you search for it you
cannot find it except if you search each folder sepratly that it isvery time
consuming process.

Bob wrote:

Actually this is not an issue of SP3 it was exist from first days of windows XP
- yes the options checked and I can see the hidden and system files too.
- I'm not using Indexing server that consumes about 5Gigs of my Hard space
and also makes finding an small file in a folder of 1500 files slower than
finding it manually.

I also unregistered dll's for the Search dog and new blue look with lot of
useless options and it not look like windows 2000 search box that I missed it
a lot.

from your answer I understand that you can search windows host drive and see
the files inside the program files folder and windows folder in your test
result, am I right?

Bob

"Shenan Stanley" wrote:

Bob wrote:

Hi Shenan

Many Thanks, I had so much pain searching for files inside Windows folder,
specially when you are writing a service application and you need to delete
it from system32 folder each time you change it.

I created a registry patch to set these default settings for search,
now I have a few more questions.

How you disabled that blue look of search in XP without unregistring the
dll's?
is it possible to have search options closed and still they are effective
(like what we had in win2k)?

Here I have a picture of what I mean the red arrows show what should change
to blue one
http://picasaweb.google.com/bsarmady/SearchIssue/photo#5202689202259967714

Many Thanks
Bob

and do you have a solution for folder name that shortening in title bar and
also search folder box?

"Shenan Stanley" wrote:

Bob wrote:

You can use TweakUI...
http://www.petri.co.il/restore_classic_search_in_windows_xp.htm

Which does a registry entry...
http://www.pctools.com/guides/registry/detail/1067/

No unregistering of dlls.. ;-)

Thanks Shenan

You answered all my questions, and saved a huge time for me

Bob

"Shenan Stanley" wrote: