Re: Start > Search Sucks: Microsoft's Sh!t For Brains Employees

From: clintonG (csgallagher_at_REMOVETHISTEXTmetromilwaukee.com)
Date: 01/19/05


Date: Wed, 19 Jan 2005 00:41:38 GMT

Been there. Tried that.

Read again...

* Three different developers
* Three different machines
* Three different instances of XP, 2 Pro and 1 Home.
* Tested using SP1 AND SP2
* Two developers reported to Product Feedback Center.

One same result: Search is FUBAR and Microsoft staff has sh!t for brains if
they expect anybody to pay the company to report what may be newly
discovered bugs.

What we don't know and are working to establish is the determination of the
status of the indexing service that if disabled after an index has been
created would not allow search to use that previously created index in the
context we have discovered.

<%= Clinton Gallagher

"Carey Frisch [MVP]" <cnfrisch@nospamgmail.com> wrote in message
news:OvcDQJa$EHA.2600@TK2MSFTNGP09.phx.gbl...
> Q. "Has anybody else experienced the failure of Search Files and Folders
> "Containing Text" when using XP Pro?"
>
> A. No.
>
> Using the "A word or phrase in the file" search criterion may not work
> http://support.microsoft.com/kb/309173/EN-US/
>
> HOW TO: Search For Hidden Or System Files In Windows XP
> http://support.microsoft.com/default.aspx?scid=kb;en-us;302347
>
> --
> Carey Frisch
> Microsoft MVP
> Windows XP - Shell/User
>
> Be Smart! Protect Your PC!
> http://www.microsoft.com/athome/security/protect/default.aspx
>
> --------------------------------------------------------------------------

--
>
> "clintonG" wrote:
>
> | The Start > Search Files and Folders "Containing Text"  feature in XP
Pro
> | SP1 and XP Pro SP2 fails and has done so when tested by three different
> | developers on three different machines.  We have determined XP Pro SP1
> | functions in this regard.
> |
> | Two of us even took the time to document and acknowledge this at the
> | Microsoft Product Feedback Center [1] which turned out to be an
excercise in
> | futility because one of the little sh!t for brains that is getting paid
by
> | Microsoft to waste our time debugging Microsoft's software claimed
he/she
> | could not reproduce -- so therefore the problem did not exist -- so sh!t
for
> | brains closed the issue to all further comment.
> |
> | Then to make matters worse the OP is told he would have to pay Microsoft
$35
> | an hour to report the failure of their software if not satisfied with
the
> | feedback center!
> |
> | Has anybody else experienced the failure of Search Files and Folders
> | "Containing Text" when using XP Pro?
> |
> | -- 
> | <%= Clinton Gallagher
> |         METROmilwaukee "Regional Information Services"
> |         NET csgallagher AT metromilwaukee.com
> |         URL http://clintongallagher.metromilwaukee.com/
> |
> | [1] http://lab.msdn.microsoft.com/ProductFeedback/Default.aspx
> |
> |


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