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   From: vcotirlea@hotmail.com   
      
   I tried also with indexing service on, but still didn't work. This is   
   pretty annoying as I can't trust anymore the Windows Explorer search.   
      
   On Wed, 2 Aug 2006 15:13:50 -0400, "Sinner"    
   wrote :   
      
   >   
   >"Major Tom"  wrote in message   
   >news:y7CdnVRmm-icc03ZRVnytg@giganews.com...   
   >> Viviana Vc wrote:   
   >>> Hi all,   
   >>>   
   >>> Until now I have used Windows 2000, and these days I switched to Windows   
   >>> XP SP2. Now I'm having the following problem with the Windows Explorer   
   >>> Search in WinXP (I'll describe the steps to reproduce):   
   >>> - create a directory eg MY_DIR   
   >>> - create in this dir a file momo.txt in which write the text "lolo"   
   >>> - make a copy of momo.txt in the same dir and rename it to momo.pm   
   >>> - use Windows Explorer to make a search into MY_DIR directory for all   
   >>> files that contain the "lolo" string   
   >>> => even if the content of momo.txt and momo.pm is identical, only   
   >>> momo.txt is found. In Windows 2000 this was not a problem.   
   >>>   
   >>> I used TweakUI to change the search to be like Windows 2k, but this   
   >>> doesn't really affect the actual search. How can I change the behaviour,   
   >>> so that in the above scenario both files to be found as containing the   
   >>> "lolo" string?   
   >>>   
   >>> Thx,   
   >>> Viv   
   >>   
   >> It appears to be dependant on the file extension. If you change .PM to   
   >> .DOC or .HTM or .JS it will find the text.   
   >> When asked to find a text string, it looks like XP only searches files it   
   >> expects to contain text.   
   >> Even if you associate a .PM file with Notepad the search still fails.   
   >>   
   >> Somebody else will know more about it I guess.   
   >>   
   >   
   >After testing it myself, I reached the same conclusion.  I didn't test it   
   >with the indexing service turned on though.  I don't know if that would make   
   >a difference.   
   >   
      
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