Re: XP Search Engine SUCKS

Thank you for your reply and recommendation, Curt.

If I cannot get Windows XP to perform (as it should), I will download Agent
Ransack and give it a try.

I should mention that I have Windows Indexing Service disabled because I'm
not fond of its impact on non-search engine related performance -
accordingly, I hope Agent Ransack does not depend on a similar indexing
service.

I sincerely appreciate your reply and recommendation.

Many thanks!!

Brianna


"Curt Christianson" <curtchristnsn@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote in message
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Hi BG,

Without trying to make any excuses for XP's search engine (I don't like it
either, and it's sloowww), try using Agent Ransack. It's free *and* fast!

http://www.mythicsoft.com/agentransack/

--
HTH,
Curt

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"BeeGee" <postreplytonewsgroup@xxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote in message
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| 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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