Re: FInd files in Windows Explorer...

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I'll check this out more thoroughly later to day.

May be the problem situated between the screen and the chair... hehe

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Zadig Galbaras
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Øyvind Granberg wrote:
Done that... and....
No. can't find a singel file...
It seems only to look for the search word inside the shortcuts filename, and not in the link which resides within.

I'm flabergasted...
I was able to do just this back in the days of WinXP...


Hey, I did a test. I created a file in a directory I use that has many files I keep there.

In the file I put this link.

<http://www.windowsecurity.com/articles/Hidden_Backdoors_Trojan_Horses_and_Rootkit_Tools_in_a_Windows_Environment.html>

I wanted to find the file that had "Hidden" in it. The search found the in the folder that I had pointed to. I also had that url above in some posts and using the Email search tab and it found "Hidden" in the posts that had the url.

Then I want back to the search again using the ADV Search and pointed to the <C> drive with *Include non indexed hidden a system files* and told it to search, and it found every stinking file that contained the word *Hidden* in it, including the the file I had save in my test folder and all posts that had the url above there.

I think you're using the Name (Specify Name) box when using the Adv Search. When I used that box, it only came back with short-cuts that had 'Hidden' in its description text and looked no further.

However when I used the Search box, top right side of the screen above the 'ADV screen', and entered 'Hidden' in that box and told it to search, based on the other ADV Search criteria I had selected, then it took off and found the files that contained 'Hidden' in them.

I don't know if that's your problem or not, but I didn't have the problem finding files that contained a word in them.

This link may be of interest particularly the part about the boolean operators that can be applied in the search criteria when searching for content.

<http://www.windowsvistamagazine.com/US/28190303217267201/find-any-file-with-windows-vista-search.html>


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