Re: Win XP Search not finding anything!

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From: David Candy (david_at_mvps.org)
Date: 09/02/04 

Date: Fri, 3 Sep 2004 01:44:56 +1000

Because people normally search for Data. So XP searches for user data. Code is not user data. Searching google for <html> won't find every web page in google's database cause google, like XP, searches content not binary structure.

It's smart searching. 

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"M Skabialka" <mskabialka@NOSPAMdrc.com> wrote in message news:OqNM16PkEHA.1356@TK2MSFTNGP09.phx.gbl...
> I was trying to find a form in an Access database that had code I wanted to 
> reuse.  So using Windows XP I did a search on all of my databases on the 
> computer:
> 
> filename: *.mdb
> A word or phrase in the file: scroll
> Look in: My Computer
> 
> Search didn't find it, so I tried another word, then tried "sub" which 
> appears multiple times in every database.
> 
> In no case did the search find any files.
> My search options include:
> Search system folders
> Search hidden fiels and folders
> Search subfolders
> 
> No date or size restrictions....
> 
> I could do this in Windows98, in fact I just went to my old PC with some of 
> the same databases and did a search, and found databases based on seach 
> words.
> Why can't I find these access .mdb files based on words in them using 
> Windows XP search?
> 
> Thanks,
> Mich 
> 
>

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