> 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.
>
> 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.

> Search Options --> Advanced Options --> Search system folders,
> Search hidden files, Search Subfolders are all checked?
>
> 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. :-(

> 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?

> 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.