Re: XP Search Engine SUCKS

Tech-Archive recommends: Fix windows errors by optimizing your registry

The impact of the Indexing Service is most detrimental whilst it is
building the Index and less so later.

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Hope this helps.

Gerry
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BeeGee wrote:
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/

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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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