Re: Search Command does't work right.

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From: Don J (dej4000_at_comcast.net)
Date: 08/16/04 

Date: Mon, 16 Aug 2004 16:18:07 -0400

I don't see any command that says "Search>For Files and Folders". Clicking
the "Switch" word at the top of the 'Search Bar' does nothing.

No, I am not trying to initiate the indexing service (Not Yet Anyway). I am
just trying to learn from the book.

                    Don J

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"Will Denny" <willdenny@mvps.org> wrote in message
news:uWXBWT8gEHA.2684@TK2MSFTNGP10.phx.gbl...
> Hi
>
> You need to click on Search>For Files or Folders... Then in the left hand
> column you should see 'Change Preferences'. Are you trying to start the
> Indexing Service?
>
> --
>
> Will Denny
> MVP - Windows Shell/User
> Please reply to the News Groups
>
>
> "Don J" <dej4000@comcast.net> wrote in message
> news:LKidnRs92P93mLzcRVn-qg@comcast.com...
> >I can't get Windows Explorer to work the way it should. I am looking at
> >the
> > book Windows XP INSIDE/OUT. On page 443 (Chapter 12) it says that
> > I should Choose 'Search from thr Strart Menu' then click 'Change Prefer-
> > ences'. I don't see anything that says 'Change Preferences'.
> >
> > This is only a fraction of the problems that I am encountering. All
> > through
> > Chapter 12 it describes operations that should be performed, but can't
for
> > reasons similar to the above. The problem seems to be related to the
fact
> > that I am looking at a different display for the search screen than the
> > one
> > shown in the book. The one that I am looking at has the single word
> > 'Search' at the top of the Search Bar. The one that the book displays
> > (Fig
> > 12-10) has the two word phrase 'Search Companion' in this location. The
> > Search Bar shown in the book looks very different than the one that I am
> > currently looking at. I've spent about an hour trying to get my Search
> > Bar
> > to look like the Bar shown in the book. But it doesn't work.
> >
> > The figure shown in the book looks familiar to me. It is the one that I
> > was
> > using to do searches with up until recently. Then things seemed to
> > change.
> > I hadn't noticed the change up to the the time I starated reading the
> > book.
> >
> >
> >
> >
>
>

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