windows XP explorer & text search

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From: kh (anonymous_at_discussions.microsoft.com)
Date: 04/09/04 

Date: Thu, 8 Apr 2004 19:30:52 -0700

In previous Windows versions (NT, WIN98) it was possible
to find files containing a certain text using the search
function.
This even if the files aren't doc files or...

In XP it seems impossible to get the same result.
I'm trying to file containing flat ascii text containing
a certain word. As these are automatic generated files
I'm looking at >1000 files, all with extension DAT
These files open perfectly with notepad. (I've set the
system to open these files with notepad)

Any suggestions?

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