[PIGMI] Windows search

[Kat Black]

It hides some files, supposedly for your own good, hmpf.

eg, Our VJing files are all formatted with Indeo 5.2 codec, which we
cannot search with Vista or Win7 because apparently there's some
security flaw in Indeo that's been there for over 10yrs and that M$
couldn't be bothered patching - so they just don't let you search the
files. It's still the best codec for what we do (smallest
filesize:quality ratio, scales beautifully, etc).

For that and a bunch of other reasons, we have just gone back to older
laptops running XP for our VJing. I'd almost forgotten that it was
possible to quickly search for my VJ filenames, after having to use
awkward third-party searchware for the past couple of years to find
particular files. SO happy to be back on XP for VJing. Using Win7 on a
new laptop for everything else, and it's a big improvement on Vista,
but the searching thing was definitely a problem for us too.

Maybe that's not the issue, but could be worth investigating if it's
just particular files refusing to Index?

best, kat

http://VJzoo.com


On 28 December 2010 10:05, Andy Hawkins <andyhawkins at ozemail.com.au> wrote:
> I've had some success in adding indexes under the control panel for the
> drives I want to check.  Indexing took a while.  I'm going back to the
> source and reading how to do it from Microsoft's support site (of all places
> : ) )
>
> Andy H.
>
> Or try using the start menu search:
> Click start (bottom left) and in the box type your search. If you want more
> advanced search then in the result I think there's an option for that.
> -Dylan
>
> On Mon, Dec 27, 2010 at 9:28 AM, Joel Blackwell <joel at superfurious.com>
> wrote:
>>
>> I assume F1 for help (hint hint), and make sure you're searching the
>> non-indexed locations.
>>
>> I'm on Vista, so that's a guess ;)
>>
>> -Joel
>>
>>
>> On 28/12/2010 8:31 AM, Andy Hawkins wrote:
>>>
>>> So, to all those people that told me Windows 7 was great, never look
>>> back ... how the f&#k do I search for anything? It just wont find simple
>>> file I can see are there...
>>>
>>> Gahhhh!!!
>>>
>>> Andy H.
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