[PIGMI] Windows search

[Andy Hawkins]

If I search using the text entry box from the Start button it only looks 
for files that are indexed.  I think they're trying to do the Spotlight 
thing from the Mac - but as usual, royally screwing it up.  No offence 
to Camm ;-)
> 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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