Re: Search not finding specific files

One thing that seems to help the Vista search function is to periodically rebuild the search index. Control Panel| Classic View| Indexing Options| Advanced| Rebuild. This takes about 20 minutes if you are not otherwise using the computer keyboad & mouse; otherwise it may take several hours as the indexing runs very slowly in the background while you are active. I currently show 14,735 items in my index. I rebuild about once a month and go have lunch while it does its thing. Seems to help it stay current and accurate. Have a try at rebuilding and post back with your experience.

Cheers,
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HP Pavilion - 2GB RAM - Core2 Duo CPU
Vista Home Premium
Movie Maker 6.0
Office 2007

"John Eggeling" <John.Eggeling.3ctbc6@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote in
message news:John.Eggeling.3ctbc6@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx

Hi Roger

I'm experiencing something like that myself, though in my case I'm
using Vista Home. I'm an antiquarian bookdealer and this morning I was
wanting to search my Invoices folder for all invoices to a particular
individual (these all have his full name and address on them).

When I did a search for his surname (which is uinique) I found 21
invoices, when I searched for his house name (also unique) I found 28
invoices, and when I searched for his village name (again unique) I
found 34 invoices. There are in fact more than 34 invoices to him on my
computer.

If all three searches came up with the same number of invoices, I might
be able to figure out what is wriong - with them all different I'm
totally at a loss.

John Eggeling


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