Group: microsoft.public.windowsxp.configuration_manage · Group Profile
Author: BobBob Date: May 14, 2008 18:57
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:
>> 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.
>
> Search Options --> Advanced Options --> Search system folders, Search hidden
> files, Search Subfolders are all checked?
>
>> The second problem is with "Look in" combo box that is not
>> containing full path to search folder so you cannot include many
>> selected drives like what was available in windows 2000, I could
>> search drive C and D together using folder name like this C:,D:
>> (i'm not sure may be C:;D: ) but it is not available anymore
>>
>> The other problem is the name on Search folder combo box is not
>> path anymore so I cannot copy the search folder name from there. As
>> an example if you are searching D:\Documents\Media it only shows
>> Media and if you have Media Folder in many Media folder like
>> "C:\Document\1\Media", "C:\Document\2\Media",
>> "C:\Document\3\Media", ... you will not know which one you was
>> searching from the search box
>>
>> fortunatly I managed to get ride of the dog and stupid new search
>> dialog that was showing all files as thumbnails.
>
> Truly - it sounds like you have some other issue. Are you sure all you did
> was install SP3? I just tried it on 3 very differently configured systems
> that I recentlhy updated to SP3 - none of them had the issues you are
> reporting. :-(
>
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