XP Search Engine SUCKS

Hi and thank you for looking at my posting.

My O/S is Windows XP Home Edition SP2 with all MS updates to date.

Clicking - - Start / Search For Files or Folders / and using the option
"Search for files or folders named:" does NOT look in any Windows directory
without specifying the EXACT directory using the Browse option. Why is
this?

Are there any Registry settings that will broaden the SEARCH to include all
Windows directories when searching local hard drives C, for example?

I wish XP was more like 98SE and other lesser O/S that searched the whole
local drive including all Windows directories (without additional user
intervention and key stokes)

Thank you.

BG




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  • Re: XP Search Engine SUCKS
    ... My O/S is Windows XP Home Edition SP2 with all MS updates to date. ... "Search for files or folders named:" does NOT look in any Windows directory without specifying the EXACT directory using the Browse option. ... Are there any Registry settings that will broaden the SEARCH to include all Windows directories when searching local hard drives C, ...
    (microsoft.public.windowsxp.general)
  • Re: XP Search Engine SUCKS
    ... My O/S is Windows XP Home Edition SP2 with all MS updates to date. ... all Windows directories when searching local hard drives C, ...
    (microsoft.public.windowsxp.general)
  • Re: XP Search Engine SUCKS
    ... My O/S is Windows XP Home Edition SP2 with all MS updates to date. ... all Windows directories when searching local hard drives C, ...
    (microsoft.public.windowsxp.general)
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