Vista's shite search

[HRG]

bd ttting thing... Why the fk doesn't searching for *.xls return any results. What fking moron decided to change a search that I've been using since DOS.

One word, ! Come here you fking tt and I'll explain with my fists why you're a fking moron!

[Plotloss]

cd \
dir/s *.xls

[HRG]

O:/GN

[Dracoro]

Did you click on Search Everywhere? Works for me.

[HRG]

Yes, I spent what seemed like an eternity turning on all the "I want to search everywhere, yes, including system files, yes, I really do mean everyfkingwhere including hidden locations you tt" buttons. Heck I even searched non-indexed locations excuse my temerity.

On my first go I had a window open looking at all my *.xls files and searched that very directory for *.xls and it returned nothing

Do NOT be tempted to defend the new search method, it was designed by a ergo if you like it you are a by association.

We still have backwards compatibility with the x86 platform so why not stick with a search that actually returns results?

What didn't realise older files don't have tags so you can't search for them. I know I have an Excel file with the words November and December in it, just let me search for it.

[Plotloss]

cd \
dir\s *november*.xls

HTH

[HRG]

Why you.... DOS I can still do. But it can't search inside .xls files for text to the best of my knowledge.

[David Godfrey]

It mostly works for me, might seem silly but did you install the search update?
Search V4

and is the file's location in an indexed location? if it's not vista's default is not to search content, you can change this in "folder options" "search" "what to search"...

Edited by David Godfrey on Tuesday 19th May 17:21

[mouseymousey]

Plotloss said:

cd \
dir\s *november*.xls

HTH

think you mean

cd\
dir *november*.xls /s



failing that, just don't use wildcards in the Vista search.

[HRG]

David Godfrey said:

It mostly works for me, might seem silly but did you install the search update?
Search V4

and is the file's location in an indexed location? if it's not vista's default is not to search content, you can change this in "folder options" "search" "what to search"...

Edited by David Godfrey on Tuesday 19th May 17:21

Windows search V4? I could find stuff quicker in fking DOS 2.x Coming to that,

NDIR *.xls /FO /Up (not) AFT 22-05-2004 /p

[buggalugs]

Its gash innit. My fave trick for finding malware is to search the windows folders for suss looking files new in the last few days, can you do that now? can you buggery. Same in win7. Well theres the command prompt but it puts the girls off.

[miniman]

HRG said:

Why you.... DOS I can still do. But it can't search inside .xls files for text to the best of my knowledge.

www.wingrep.com

[camgear]

Related to Vista:

How do you make the explorer address bar behave the same as the older versions? fking dropdown for each folder my fking arse

[HRG]

It's dumbed down to the point of being useless

I hope to fk they learn with Windows 7 and give it some functionality back. It's all well and good looking pretty but what's the fking point if you can't actually use it to achieve something that you have been able to do simply for years and years.

[ninja-lewis]

camgear said:

Related to Vista:

How do you make the explorer address bar behave the same as the older versions? fking dropdown for each folder my fking arse

Clicking on it (avoiding the dropdown) turns it into the normal address as in previous versions for me.

[camgear]

Yeah but that's just annoying

[Scraggles]

went to search tab, xls pulled up 10, ods pulled up 20, search everywhere pulled up lots more

[HellDiver]

Spotlight is much better. Just like most of OS X compared to Vista.

[Jinx]

If they are Excel 2007 files you need to search for *.xlsx files.

[HRG]

Jinx said:

If they are Excel 2007 files you need to search for ask it to ignore *.xlsx files.