Vista search can't find Thunderbird emails

I've had no luck at the Thunderbird forum. And this is one of those situations I find it hard to believe I'm inventing t...

Wiindows Explorer Search: Invalid Directory message.

I am wondering if what is on my hard drive and if what Win Explorer thinks is on my hard drive are two different things...

Search misses words that are in Outlook email

When I search for an emails in Outlook containing certain word, an email containing that word does not come up. If I s...

Right-click Search

HiI have Ultimate.How do I set it up so I can have a right click/seach function when right clicking on folders in explo...

Bulk search

HiI have Vista Ultimate.I need to find about 60 files on my PC, the file names are listed on a word document, and the a...

Vista Instant Search has stopped showing files

When I use the Vista Instant search from the start menu, it used to show me files and e-mails (labeled as "communi...

How to clear search history?

How can I clear the contents of search folders (i.e. the folders in \Users\[myName]\search)? I find if I delete an entr...

Vista: error message "Windows could not search for new updat

I disabled the Firewall and the anti-virus protection, but it didn't matter, since, when I checked for critical updates...

Search in Vista=runtime error.

When doing an advanced search in Vista 32, ultimate, including non- indexed, hidden and system files, I'm unable to find...

"Search Everywhere" Error

VISTA is generating a strange error when I click "search Everywhere" from the search box:Windows cannot acces...

Start Menu search finding only folders

I recently had to reinstall Vista Business with SP2 due to a major crash. After reinstalling, I set Windows to index the...

After 10 generations of Windows, how to search for files in

I want to search for file (in this case of type .DOC or .DOCX) by its content. For generations of Windows this was a tri...

How to remove Vista's search

I'm having problems with the integrated search facility in Vista. I actually like it a lot, but for some reason it fai...

Windows Mail Search function does not work

Often times Windows Mail search function for mails/persons/subject etc refuses to work. I can't figure wether it freezes...

Unreliable Vista search

I used to be able to perform effective searches in Vista from the 'start' menu. Only recently am I unable to find docum...

New, Confused and have no clue where to search for this answ

Hello!!ok, my ISP is Charter, but I do not use charter for my email. I use AOL. My parents have AOL and I have a screen...

return the file search feature that was so easy to use in XP

I'm trying to learn Vista after many successful years using XP - and the thought process behind this software just does...

How to search cookies folder?

Is there any way to search the cookies folder in Vista (or Windows 7)? In Windows XP, I can search a specific folder ...

How to set default search results columns?

Hi all,When performing a search in Vista the results show the (thoroughly confusing and useless) "Folder" col...

Advanced search?

I'm trying to do an advanced search, looking for files that were modified on a particular day. In the advanced search....

is it possible to keep the search pane in view?

I want to be able to keep the search pane in 'My Documents' or other folders in view all the time instead of having to ...

search > right click > open file location (or folder)

I want to search for a file and when I find it, I want to be able to right click and select open file location so a exp...

Search Directory

How do i reduce the size of my search directory (s)? When I deleted an entry under the outlook sub, the email in questi...

Can not be able to install windows search 4.0

Can not be able to install windows search 4.0...

Windows Search 4.0

Whenever I install this it kills my indexing ability. Is there some special trick to get it to upgrade my machine and ...

Need help with Windows search, indexing network drive

I'm running Vista Home Premium.I've installed the search add-in for network drives, I've added mapped shared folders on...

Search in Right Click menu

HiNoticed that when we right click on a folder, we do not see the search option anymore in Vista.Instead, we can see a ...

The best file search utility?

Windows Vista's file search is maybe for just casual searches, not for serious searches. I often need to find files with...

Search Photo Gallery question

Hello, I'm using Photo Gallery, and have all my pictures tagged. My question is, how can I more specifically search fo...

IE7 'Safe Search' preferences

Internet Explorer 7.Please could someone tell me how I can alter the default 'Safe search Filtering' prefs in Global Pr...

Vista's Hair-Brained Search... Any Other Choices/Configurat

Although I have learned how to make some searches for folders and file names successfully I find no reliability in it. ...

search tool bar please help!

I'm a teacher who has just replaced my school vaio with vista vgn-bx41xn to a private vgn-cr42. I have followed advice...

Using Search in Explorer with Vista

Hey All,Can someone tell me how I can recursively search folders in Windows Vista using Explorer? Currently, it only s...

Windows Search Crashing Constantly

Over the weekend Windows search started crashing constantly on my Vista SP1 system. By constantly, I mean that if I le...

Column headings in "Search "

Sometimes a search will produce results with column headings "name", "date taken", "size"...

query about Vista search

For anyone who might recognize me, it turns out that all those horrific problems I had with Vista a couple of months ago...

Windos Mail - search cannot find messages

Dear Colleagues,I have an intermittent problem with the search when looking for a "from" message in Windows Ma...

Microsoft Windows Search Protocol Host issue

Hey guys, I'm new to this forum so go easy :p When I start my PC I get an error message pop up. Here are the details of ...

Index and Search

I have been reading the posts on this site for some time and I am impressed with the depth of knowledge displayed by so...

IE 8 in Vista will not search a specific frame, and URL hist

I have figured it out. Microsoft programmers purposely screw things up so they can have a job fixing the bugs. That is...

Enabling Classic Search and Hibernate in Vista SP2

Hi All,I uses Vista Enterprise SP2. I wish to have classic Explorer search menu like in XP and 2000. Vista search menu,...

Windows Search 4.0 search box on task bar

Installing Windows search 4.0 on Windows XP gives me a search box on the task bar which I found convenient. But it doesn...

Vista SP1 removed the Search shortcut from the Start Panel

I sent the foolowing message to Microsoft - Message: Microsoft removed the search button from the Start panel for Vista ...

Windows Search Hangs then Crashes

Out of the blue, about a week ago, Windows search started to hang. Sorry if that’s not very technical but it seems t...

Search Index

How long does it take the search index to complete. I would like to search file for content in my computer. The index...

Google search box results?

Vista Business, SP1I'm not sure if this is the right place to ask this question. If it's not, I apologize, but hope tha...

Cookies & Search

Where are cookies located and how do I find and remove one? Vista Home...

Windows Search NOT PRESENT

I have uninstalled google desktop as it tries to completely replacing the windows search. But the Windows search servi...

How do I make the Preview Pane appear in Search?

Hi all, I have seen on another Vista machine when using the Start button search field, which opens the results in anothe...

Unread Mail Search Folder

I had to migrate from Outlook to Windows Mail. I have some 200 folders with rules where the new mails are sorted.At out...

Search File Contents

I have 10 years of Word Files on an external drive which I have included in the index. Cannot find files within certai...

search not finding partial phrases

search works for SetThreadAffinityMask, SetThreadAffinity, SetThread, but not for AffinityMask.Maybe I am missing a ...

Need and XP search engine for Vista

All I want to do is search by date or type of software. Actually I am searching for a recently created word file. All an...

Search for music player gadget

I have googled for hours yet I am unable to find a gadget that would function like a proper music player. I just want to...

Search icon on start bar

How do reset the icon that launches Advanced search onto my Start Bar. I have set it to do so in Taskbar properties but...

Shortcut to Search Window

Hi All,I'm running Vista Ultimate 64-bit including Service Pack 1 and all current updates. In Windows Explorer, there ...

Search no longer appears in Start Menu

Does anyone know how to start the vista search program. it no longer appears on my start menu. How can i get it back?St...

Desktop Search and special characters

Hi, I need to search files or folders that have $ or § or # in the name if I put a $ in the search box, I get near all ...

installed windows desktop search 4 but no effect on

hi I have installed WDS 4 on vista, its installed sucessfully but nothings changed.I have no deskbar option in the too...

Windows search and offline files

I recently installed 3 Dell laptop (E4300) shipped with Vista Pro 32 bits french.In order to take advantage of the vist...

Additional advanced search options

We would like to suggest that the 'Advanced search' options for files, in Windows Vista Explorer, include additional opt...

What is "Search Protocol Host"?

I have a new FoxConn MB with an AMD Phenom 9950 Quad-Core CPU and 4-Gig of RAM.However, even this system slows down when...

Files only visible in search view

Strange obscure behavior. On my brothers laptop, in documents a folder with pictures disapeared. But if He searches the ...

Search doesn't work in hidden system folders?

If I make a folder +h +s, the search function no longer does anything when I browse into that folder and type something...

right-click menu search option

In XP , we have a right-click context menu option to search the current dir for files/folders ...In Vista , this option...

Firefox 3.0.3 + Search Engines (Google etc.) + Vista = Slow

Hi,I have Firefox 3.0.3 on Vista Ultimate. It was working fine until recently but now I have noticed that links from se...

Search and Show All Messages

My WindowsMail shows words 'search' and 'Show All Messages' options on upper r/corner. I have unchecked both of these a...

Search results

If I use "start search" and look for something that might be in program files/email/web history/etc then I ca...

Can not install windows search

Can not install windows search on vista business 1. sp1 patched. 2. error msg:Yes, i have the Vista SP1 in stalled. The ...

Search opens System32 folder?

I was wondering if this only happens to me, but when I do a search (starting with my C: drive) for a file, during the p...

Problem with search indexer and windows live mail suddenly?

Hey gang,I have been running Vista 64 bit Ultimate, and it has run very well for me since installing in late Feb. It is...

Lost search function

The Vista search function appears to have partially stopped working. Clicking on Start and thent typing in a program nam...

Windows Search 6.0

What happens to the search index once a file is moved from one location to another on the hard drive?What happens when ...

XP Style search tool?

I'm afraid I concluded that for me the Vista search tool is not for me. Is there a free XP style search tool I can downl...

Windows 7 beta: unable to get library search to work?

Greetings,I'm gonna post this here because there is no Win7 usenet group (yet). Plain and simple: library search doesn't...

How do they do Live Search Maps 3D?

How do they accomplish this? 'Web browser and Live Maps are incompatible' (http://maps.live.com/?mkt=en-us)And do those ...

Vista Windows Search

Can not use advnaced search like WinXP to specify the criteria to search a specific word file contains certain words i ...

index and search weird behavior

use Vista Business with latest sps and updates. I have a folder under my user profile folder, let's name it folder1. It'...

file search fails

Vista Home Premium x64 SP1, HP Pavilion desktop,file search by partial name fails when filename contains numbers, searc...

Vista file search

How can I tell Vista search to only search filenames and not look into contents. When one wants to search for a filena...

Windows Search 4.0 update crashes Search function

Twice this weekend, I loaded latest update Windows search 4.0 for Vista kb940157. Twice the update caused “search fai...

Lost choices at the Search Pane’s Context Menu

Hi all,I’m really glad having found this forum! – It seems to be a perfectly wonderful platform.With my first post I wan...

Re: Re: Vista's Hair-Brained Search... Any Other Choices/Co

On Tue, 20 Jan 2009 19:17:41 -0800, "Tyro" wrote:search finds folders named Temp on my machine using the regu...

Search results show deleted items

Whenever I do a search of my computer, it keeps showing items that have been already deleted and does not allow me to d...

Quick Search

HelloI have installed Windows Live Mail. When I type a word in the Quick search it starts searching also in the Windows...

Shutdown window pops up when selecting search

Hi I have a strange problem with windows vista if I click on start then search then "files and folders" it op...

Search doesn't return any results after adding location to I

I have a separate HDD to which I make daily backups of my C drive. I wanted to try out a couple things with the backups...

Search Dissapeared

The search option from the right mouse button dissapeared. How can I restore it?ThanksJPG...

vista lousy search feature

"You can use Vista's search if you know any part of the filename - like DSCN or .jpg or .avi."so how do i do t...

File search/delete in Vista is hopeless

1. I try searching for files in a directory structure with .de. in the filename by entering .de. in the search field in...

Need help with Windows Mail search

I need some help using Windows Mail search. In XP and Outlook, I could easily search for a specific message or author. ...

Something wrong with search folder and folder icons

Thank you for any help in advancehow can I fix this ? http://www.geekstogo.com/forum/uploads/monthly_07_2008/post-220076...

Search Engines links do not work

Recently after I did updates of MS Office 2007 and updates of Firefox latest version my IE 8 and Firefox serch engines ...

Problem with using search box in Vista??

Hi Guys,really annoyed that sometimes when I click on "computer" then type in a name of one of my files in the...

Problems with Windows Search Advanced Query Syntax

Hi,I am fiddling around with all the parameters that Windows Vista search offers (Windows Vista SP2/German, Windows Sear...

IE Redirects search pages

Hi, when ever i use google my searches get redircted to some blank site, http://z43 something like that.. I did a hijack...

weak search function

Too bad MS never gives us an email program with a good search function. (the Find feature) Joe...

Network search everytime opening explorer

I dont know if this is normal for Vista, but everytime i open explorer and click on "Network" or any network ...

Search in Attachment

Dear Sir,Good Day,Please note that in my in-box i have lot of e-mail with Attachment (MS Excel), i have support of cont...

disable automatic search for shared printers

Hi,Thanks in advance to anyone who can help.On Win XP there was a tick box under folder options view tab to enable/disa...

No Search Command

I seemed to have lost the search command when I right click a folder in Explorer. Any way to get it back?James...

Constant problems with Vista Search

search is constantly giving inconsistant results. Whether searching from the search in the start menu or another window ...

Wheelie: App switcher/Image/Video search engine/Viewer

Hi All,I hope this isn't considered spam but no one seems to be talking about this program anywhere else and I really li...

Instant Search Box in Internet Explorer works?

::You know that upper-right box that has a magnifying class on it?::::It says -Google- on it and I can change it to -Liv...

Vista Search Contacts Outlook 2007 Fails again

OK, I know this is a big problem, and all the responses lead everyone down the usual path of reindexing, repairing ost,...

Search Bar

Can anyone help? I have not had the time to learn anything about Vista. When I go to search for documents, there is a d...

Search

I am new to Vista, have the x64 version Home Premium, and I was watching a web video on Vista that show the Vista Searc...

Windows Search indexing Outlook emails?

Vista Ultimate and Vista Business, both SP1 Office Outlook 2007A few related questions about Windows search:First, does ...

Desktop search

HiI have ultimate.With Google Desktop search I can type in a word and Desktop search instantly shows every instance of ...

Vista Search Fails to Initialize

HiFor some reason my Vista search has stopped working completely. The service is still running though. Everytime i run ...

Advanced search as default

Is there a method to have 'advanced search' as the default setting in Vista Home Premium? I would like to have searche...

Windows Search 4.0 - the Search Indexer and networkstations

Can Vista search Indexer index network drives? I am running Vista Business in a small office with a fileserver and Excha...

Renaming, deleting, moving and search problems

So basically, whenever I try and delete or move a file (I'm assuming the deleting problem is rooted in the moving probl...

cannot open containing folder in search results

I am running Vista Home Premium 64 with 4Gb RAM.In win xp I was able to right-click on a folder in the search results wi...

Vista Search woes

I've been using Vista for about a year now on my machine at work, and while I've never had any technical problems, ther...

Re: Vista's Hair-Brained Search... Any Other Choices/Config

On Wed, 21 Jan 2009 14:12:02 -0500, Retroman wrote:I just retested, and again all folders named Temp were ignored by th...

VIsta Index and Search Puzzle

I am puzzled.The Indexed locations shown when I press the show all locations button are Microsoft Outlook Start Menu and...

file search by file name

Vista search seems to be trying to do far more than I want; as a result I often get no useful results.What I almost alw...

Search facility in Vista

Why is it that if I put a 2 or 3 string phrase in the Visdta search facility I get hundereds and hundreds of search res...

How search for a file that contains (3) in the title?

I am trying to locate files that have (3) in their title. But when I search for (3) in the search bar, it returns any f...

Device Manager auto-search internet & download/install

When using Computer Management > Device Manager :Generally speaking is it a good idea to let it automatically search ...

search for largest folders

Hi,I have a friend who is running Vista Ultimate. She is getting low on hard drive space, so I am trying to help her m...

Windows Vista search error

When I try to search by clicking "intro" in the start menu, or using F3 or ctrl+F or winlogo+F I receive an e...

How to persist "Search Results" columns

I'd like to find a way to select which columns are shown in the search results display, -and set it so that my choices p...

Search for multiple images at one time. Help Needed!

Hi, I really need help on this one guys!!! I have 400 images all in one folder and I’m tiring to sort them out. By doi...

search syntax

In Windows XP (and all previous versions of Windows that I can recall going back to Win95) one could search for multipl...

Search within backup on new pc

Hello, I hope someone would be able to help me restoring a backup. It is a little different than any previous threads I ...

Windows Search - Failed upgrade from Version V3 to V4

Hi,A customers VISTA Laptop has failed to install Windows search V4, the problem now is that the V3 no longer works - a...

search feature disappeared from explorer?

I disabled the drive indexing service just like I always do in windows XP -- disable indexing on each drive, and turn ...

Vista Search slow to access Outlook 2007 email & RSS

I installed the update to WDS 4.0 and it's great. There is a performance issue I am having with outlook 2007. If I op...

Search by size

Vista Home Premium.I'm struggling to search my entire hard drive for everything on, filtered by size. What's the metho...

Vista cannot search for text in files unless file extension

My scenario is quite simple. I manage a number of sites that upload their activity log as text files using names like: c...

Help... search weirdness

Vista home premium with the updradeI'm looking for folders whose name has the word "game" in them. If I searc...

Vista Search Bar Woes

I just reformatted my comp and reinstalled vista... but I just can't get my start menu search bar back to performing rig...

Who do you get SEARCH to work?

How do I get search to work? I type the file name in the window and there is no button to start the search. If I hit th...

How to Search files in Vista

I must be doing something wrong, cuz the Vista file search doesn't find diddly squat.What happened to the helpful, hand...

search options

First I would like the search bar in the start menu to always search everywhere. I have looked for various settings opti...

Problems starting programs using Start/Search Field/Program

there is this small frustration i'm having with Vista's search option.I am using Vista Home Premium [32b] [NO Service Pa...

vista search

Hi,I seem to have a problem using "search" on Vista. It was working a whie ago but now seems to have stopped....

Registry Search Tool... Cleaning Up Vista Registry...

All for Vista 64-bit Ultimate:1.) I've had a third falling out over 25 or so years with Symantec/Norton and am looking...

Search ?

Hi all, just started using Vista Premium. Where is the search function similar to XP where I select the search paramet...

Windows search and offlines folders

I recently installed 3 Dell laptop (E4300) shipped with Vista Pro 32 bits french.In order to take advantage of the vist...

Can't open email search results

Hi all,When I use the Vista start menu search box it returns plenty of results in my Outlook 2003 email folders. The pro...

Search Indexing

I'm using Vista Home Premium, and maybe that's my problem. I'm interested in learning if there is a way to index networ...

Can't search DVD drive

When I highlight (select) my DVD RW Drive (F:) and do a search for a file that I know is on the disc, it comes up "...

Delete or Move files within "Search"

I need to be able to search for files and then delete or move them from within the search results window. I can do tha...

Search 4.0 finds Outlook mail and RSSfast, but doesn't open

I installed the update to WDS 4.0 and it's great. There is a performance issue I am having with outlook 2007. If I op...

No file names in search

When I perform a search in the search Results window, showing any kind of icon view (instead of list, details, or tiles...

All Search Gadget - can't click links

Hello All,I probably have to do something very simple but I just can't work it out - maybe someone out there can help?I...

Files found using search but Missing from C:

Had some issues with my login profile, basically when I selected my account and entered my password and I was given some...

Search not finding specific files

When I'm using Vista's search or advanced search, it finds files that do not exist any more, and does not find files tha...

Windows Search 4.0 for Windows Vista?

Windows Vista should have a built-in instant search indexing. So, I am not really sure what Windows search 4.0 for Wind...

Vista SEARCH Can't FIND - Any Ideas?

I bought this HP laptop about a month ago, loaded with Vista (home version I guess). I'm trying to search a directory ...

Search inside Word documents

searching in Windows XP using the advanced mode gave an option for searching for text within a file (such as Word or Po...

Search Contacts Notes

Windows Vista has some powerful new search capabilities, but it does not seem able to search the Notes component of Cont...

How to disable the search function in windows vista

So how it goes?...

Can't search or index a temp directory

If I create a folder (directory) named "temp", Vista search will not find a file in it, even though it is chec...

Vista Search problems

I can't find a solution and think I'm going to have to put all my files on my XP computer, but this isn't going to take...

Windows Search and Indexing

Why does the search command remain in the context menu in Explorer even though I have disable Windows search from Admin...

Search finds files after they've been moved??

I'm running Vista Home Premium 64 bit and recently transferred files to my computer. After I loaded a lot of my documen...

Microsoft Windows Search Filter Host

Hi, My firewall (AVG) is asking me to allow or block Misrosoft Windows search Filter Host. This comes up repeatedly. I ...

advanced search (ultimate)

I have yet to find a way to navigate to Advanced search without first searching for an item in a regular folder and the...

Search by Name in main searchbox?

Vista Enterprise SP1When searching a folder or drive, or from Start > Seach > For Files or Folders, you get a Text...

Search Inside Files - How?

Does Vista have the same capability as XP to search for a word or phrase inside files? I use that a lot in XP, but can'...

Windows Search

Does Windows Vista new search engine search within files contents. I have many Word files .doc on an external hard dri...

Search function question

Hi, With XP I we were available to search the computer for the drives or even the whole computer . With Vista I am not s...

a two parter...'search' has gone missing from the start menu

Recently, I went to the start menu to search for a file, and found (or rather, did not find...) that 'search' had gone ...

resorting search results generates a new search

When I do a search of my Indexed Locations, the results display with the following column headings - Name, Date modifie...

Search results unreliable

I had two wab files, one in a folder under my user folder, and one under my AppData\Local\Microsoft\Address Book. I tri...

windows search doesn't give expected results when using hyph

I am trying to look through a list of files where the name has dashes. for example, the filenames look like "2009-...

Restore (Rebuild?) default indes/search extensions

I am using Windows Vista Ultimate (x86).On the advice of a so-called IT "expert" - after having some dificulty...

Why does search not work in live mail ?

I have desktop search set to only search file names on the drives and no text. So anyone that types things in does no...

Windows Search 4.0 - no Search toolbar visible on Taskbar?

OS: Dell OEM Vista Home Premium (updated to SP1)I installed Windows search 4.0 through Windows Update yesterday and aft...

Vista Search vs. WMP11 search

My music folder now stands at 200GB. With default settings Vista search will index this. If I exclude this location wil...

get rid of the HORRIBLE vista search!

http://news.office-watch.com/t/n.aspx?articleid=549&zoneid=&paginate=falseThis explains why MS blundered once ag...

Problem with Search Display

All of a sudden, when I use search, the results are blank in every view except "list"I had set it to "det...

Copy search results with full path

Is there a way to copy the results of a search into a folder and maintain the directory structure of the original files...

permanently remove search and view bars

Even though I right click and select not to show the search and View bars in Windows Mail, within the next few times I ...

Finding files, search folders and other questions

I've just switched to Vista and I'm going mad trying to find my files. My most common search is for files created betwee...

How do I search for a Word (.doc) file modified between a da

The vista search is sometimes faster than XP seach, but XP gave me many parameters to search by such as:- File name - c...

Search Issue

OS = Vista Ultimate SP1 - all available updates applied.I searched for .tib files (Acronis True Image Backup), on G:\ dr...

Making search folder columns permanent

Almost every time I do a search in Explorer, I end up changing the columns that are displayed in the search folder. Is...

Vista search cannot find mail before march and doesn't displ

Dear readers,I use vista and Outlook 2007, mapi, with zarafa sync. Vista search cannot find mail before march and doesn'...

ultimate: advanced search...

hi,I'm searching for a .JPG file.. in a folder, it says it can't find ANY files, when in fact I have hundreds of .JPG's...

search not working in windows mail

My windows mail search function no longer works. I have tried to look for emails multiple ways, even ones that I may ha...

Vista search anomalies

I created three files home exercise 1.jpg, exercise .jpg, exercise 3.jpg in Public/Physical Therapy. When I searched f...

Where is Find/Search in Explorer?

I right clicked on a folder in Explorer, and could not see any Find or search option. Where is it?...

How to delete temporary internet html files from search resu

How to delete temporary internet html files from search results. Already deleted in explorer? They are no where to be f...

Microsoft Windows search protocol closed

Hi there.Vista Ultimate with all the latest updates. Logitech wireless Mouse/Keyboard combination Wacaom Tablet with Pen...

How do I remove search box in Windows Explorer in Vista?

How do I remove search box in Windows Explorer in Vista? Not in Internet Explorer but in usual windows so I can have mo...

Data Execution Prevention closes Microsoft Windows Search Pr

I am running Microsoft Windows Vista Home Basic Service Pack 1, and almost every time I shut down Microsoft Outlook 200...

search box

when I type any information in to the search box, a message comes back saying can not find this info?? That's on every ...

question regarding search

Under XP, I could search for a document containing some string. Today, running Vista Home Premium, I tried to locate a d...

Search Settings

Hello.Is their any possibility to change search settings in Windows Mail?Following is my problem, actually: if I am typi...

Windows can't search for updates

I get an error message : 0800B0100.I tried to contact MS but did not got an answer that solves my problem.I tried to ins...

Vista search - preview pane problem

The preview pane in Vista search seems to work intermittently. Many times it simply won't give any preview at all, eve...

Search Problem

Just downloaded search 4.0 and my VISTA with SP1 still won't search contents of .wps folders. Have reindexed and checke...

Search by name and file type

IMHO Microsoft is shooting itself in the head with all of these poorly constructed ribbons and dumbing down of its syste...

Add Search Folder to Start Menu

This is a small thing but still something that bugs me. I was watching one of the Vista demo videos and it seems there...

Vista Search Index Always Erases Itself

I constantly am finding that i have to go in to control panel> Indexing options to re-submit the locations that i wan...

Search field on open/import?

Hi guys, I did post this a couple of days ago but can't find my post so forgive me if this is a duplicate.Is there any w...

Search Gone

After some automatic upgrade, right clicking a file in the explorer no longer has search on it.What do I need to do to r...

problem after update to windows search 4.0

Hope someone can help! In Windows Vista I often use the option 'stack files by name'. After installing the upd...

WHERE IS THE SEARCH FOLDER

I'm trying to open the search FOLDER as described in the Vista help section (click here to open). I gather it is simil...

Windows Configure Search Setting Msg

I've been getting the following message when I open IE or folders:"Please wait while Windows Configure search Setti...

Search No Longer Works

I used to be able to find files in My Documents and its subfolders by typing part of the name into the search bar at th...

IE7 History items not being indexed in Windows Search

IE7 on Vista Home Premium. It seems that History items are not being indexed in Windows search. Where are they located s...

vista ultimate desktop search across network how

I used desktop search on XP across the lan to my buffalo network drive just fine.With vista ultimate it will not let me...

Windows Search not working correctly

Since reinstalling Vista and having done all the updates and let the index run fully using the defaults, I've discovere...

search session in Windows mail

I noticed that if I open a secon search window in window mail this will not work if the first is still open in outloo...

How to get the Vista Search to find something?

I have noticed several times, that search under Vista is not functioning properly. For instance, searching all hard dri...

Search problems

I have just started having trouble when using search to try to find an email. Windows Mail is not finding emails anymor...

Windows Search makes explorer.exe use 90% of CPU. Cure my wi

Hello! explorer.exe uses 90% of CPU after opening a HDD in a windows explorer window for minutes. Other windows account...

DHCPv6 showing wrong DNS Suffix Search List

I'm seeing an issue in Vista SP1 where the computer is getting dns servers and search list through DHCP.If the DHCPv6 s...

Vista Search - WTF - Any 3rd Party Alternatives?

WTF could they have been thinking? Or was it that they went on a drinking binge before designing this "feature"...

Search Displays Deleted File Names (in deleted folder)

Much of the stuff I download from the net goes into one particular folder, and a search immediately shows it is present...

Removed Image Still Displays in Search Result

HelloOS: Windows Vista HomeI have deleted images that I don't want to be in my computer. However, as I use the search ...

search wont find files in locations i set to index

For example, i hate going into windows/system32/drivers/etc/ to edit my hosts file.I went into indexing options, and i a...

File search

When searching for (.doc, .xls or pdf) files from the search window or from an office application, most of the files fo...

Solution / Vista Lacks A Real Search Engine

XP had a great desktop search engine and Apple a bad search engine. Vista copied Apples joke of a search engine and now ...

Windows Mail - repeat search problem

Can anyone help me please? Windows mail works well but there is a problem when I search for a message. Usually the first...

How to delete Search Box AutoComplete information

A lot of times when I am surfing the web I come to a site that has an information search box. When I click inside of i...

Search reindexing every reboot

Since installing SP1 I find search re-indexing from scratch every reboot. Painful! I do want to keep using Vista search...

search for files

What's the trick to get Vista to search for files or folders when you click the "search for files or folders"...

Cannot open files found using windows search

No problem finding files using text. However, on attempt to open file I get folowing message. Windows canot find c:\user...

How to search for a phrase in a file

In windows XP's search options you could use the option to find a phrase within a set of files. I want to search all .b...

Vista search including double quote

Vista ultimate. I want to search multiple dtsx files for the existence of a string that includes a double quote. Specif...

Search cannot find SNIPPING TOOL, why?

How do I get it back?...

Vista search won't open individual Outllok emails

When I do a search on my Vista 64 bit system, I CAN'T OPEN any E-MAILS from my Outlook 2003I can see the titles, dates, ...

Microsoft Search.

Hi to all,On an HP laptop nw9440 running under Windows Vista Ultimate+SP1 and all other updates installed. I can't get ...

Vista Search does not find start menu entries

Hi,Vista search does not find Start Menu entries by typing parts of the name in the search box.For example, if I type &q...

Missing Search Option on Right click in Explorer

For some reason the "search" Option now longer never shows when I right click on a folder, drive letter etc. A...

vista search frustration

I'm really trying. I really 'want' to like vista. I have an issue with searches. Sometimes I only want search to re...

Windows Vista Search

The search function in Vista really does suck!!!! I've now been using Agent Ransack for searching but even that doesn't ...

Windows Mail contact search

Why doesn't the contact search in Windows mail work? I type in a contact name in search and nothing comes up except adva...

What's wrong with Vista 'Search for files' utilty?

Why search cannot find the file located in \System32 folder when I tell search to look in drive C:\? Only when I point ...

Can't Search File Contents

Just downloaded search 4.0 and my VISTA with SP1 still won't search contents of .wps folders. Have reindexed and checke...

Yahoo search on Vista Taskbar

I have Vista on my laptop. On the taskbar along the bottom there is a small search window that says Yahoo search in it....

Search Index - Rebuild or Restore Defaults

Running Vista Home Premium. searching for filenames that are in My Documents no longer works unless I check the box for...

Vista Ultimate x86 Could not search for new Updates

For some reason, my date and time was reset to 2002, so of course I could not update. I changed the date and I continue...

How to search for *.abc; *.pqr

How can I convince the Vista search function to simply look for all files whose names match a wildcard?search Companion...

Discrepancy Between Vista and Outlook 2007 Search Results

Hello Group!When searching for email using the search box at the bottom of the Vista Start menu (or the separate search...

UI BUG: icon is missing during the search of a missing link

When you click on a non existent file in the recent items, it appears a dialog box that searches for file and then ask ...

Windows Search 4 - Wildcard in file content

Hi,firstly, apologies if this post lands in the wrong groups.Have Windows search 4 in use under XP pro. Works rather nic...

Search produces Windows Explorer error

When I type the letter 'v' in the search box on the start menu, a message box pops up saying Windows Explorer has encoun...

hidden messages, appear with search but not shown in folders

My old messages have disappeared from their folders.I know they are not really gone because when I run a search by date ...

Removal of icons from search results

I have a Windows Vista in my Dell laptop.A curious thing happened when I was looking for a movie file, for example, *.m...

Search partial file name

Where is the setting on Vista which lets you change your search settings, so that you can search only part of the file ...

Change a Saved Search

Using Windows Vista EnterpriseI've created a 'Saved search' in Windows Explorer. How do I a) SEE the search criteria w...

Windows 7 Search

Sorry to post a Windows 7 question in a Vista group, but I assume the issues and answers apply to both. Also, am I mis...

Contacts Search Not Working - Windows Mail

I have a new Vista Premium 64-bit system. The Contact List was created via Import of the .wab from prior XP Home/SP2 O...

Find/Search function doesn't find emails?

Hi,I was trying to find an email in my Inbox. I right clicked inbox and chose find/search.I put in the user's name, no ...

How can I search for a ( in the filename only?

I am trying to find all filenames with a ( in a certain folder. Vista is returning to me all files with a ( in any at...

Search criteria

Once I've done a search and saved it, is there a way I can adjust the search criteria?...

Search tool in open/import/place dialog boxes

Hi folks, one thing I do like about Vista is the search box at the top right of folder when in Explorer view. Is there a...

Search Indexer Option buttons greyed out

Hi,following an exchange of movable discs I wanted to update the settings of Windows search Indexing.The frame for setti...

Outlook 2007 search failing

When I type something into the search box in Outlook 2007 on my Vista SP1 laptop I get the following message:"Inst...

Search in Vista

search continues to confuse me in Vista. In XP it was easy to find files i.e. *.xls;*budget*.doc, etc. In vista file ...

Search query help

Having a bit of a tough time learning the Advanced Query Language. I'm trying to find folders that BEGIN with something...

search not finding files .... my blood pressure is rising

I'm at dir /xyz and i see file 123.log has contents "bullshit" in it.From windows explorer, I type "bulls...

Search closed PST files in Vista

Hi,i upgraded to search 4.0 Windows6.0-KB940157-x86.Now i have a few issues:If a pst file is open in outlook it gets ind...