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it was flown in by the QANTAS CEO himself, CG and he are buddies now. Happened shortly after the Telstra reconciliation.
Luc Pattyn [Forum Guidelines] [Why QA sucks] [My Articles]
I only read formatted code with indentation, so please use PRE tags for code snippets.
I'm not participating in frackin' Q&A, so if you want my opinion, ask away in a real forum (or on my profile page).
modified on Wednesday, May 12, 2010 7:38 PM
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Eww... I did not need that picture in my head, man.
Software Zen: delete this;
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Dollars to doughnuts that they are aping the way it works in Mac OSX Finder/Search where you just typing characters. Let's not even get into a discussion as to whether or not that's a good thing
Of course I gave up on search in Explorer a long time ago.
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If they are aping it, they failed.
The OSX search automatically assumes wildcards on both ends and tries to find strings containing the search term in the name and meta-data.
The Seven approach is no where near as good and is worse than XP in a lot of ways. Which is sad. If it ain't broke, break it should not be a motto.
If I have accidentally said something witty, smart, or correct, it is purely by mistake and I apologize for it.
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I have never much liked Windows search. In fact, I created my own regex search utility so I could avoid using it. The thing that really annoys me is that it ignores some file types. You can fix that in a round about way, but it's way too dumbed down for my taste. I guess they just assume users would get overwhelmed with all those fancy looking settings.
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Once windows started searching ZIP files as if they were folders, that forced me back to the command line prompt, and I was glad that the command line worked differently!
Also, the windows search will not search files that are open, even if they are opened in shared read mode. Bogus.
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No results at all with this approach, but thanks.
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Is your location indexed?
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Nope. Haven't cared for the overhead of the indexers in the past so I tend to avoid them.
Of course, there's always the old standby: cmd. 
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The win7 indexer is actually smart enough to only run when you're not not using the computer. The XP version always ended up curbstomped within a few weeks for stopping me from being able to work; it was as bad as diskkeeper  in that regard. The win7 one I've never noticed running at all.
3x12=36
2x12=24
1x12=12
0x12=18
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I've had similar problems with no results at all, indexed or not. In my case it was something to do with junctions that it didn't like I think.
I had my C:\Users junctioned to H:\Junction\Users and the search bar in Explorer within the documents library wouldn't work at all, but it does work if I manually navigate into H:\Junctions\Users and search in there.
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That worked great. Thanks for the tip! Kind of a pain to have to type that many additional characters but, at least is works.
Being smarter than you look always beats looking smarter than you are.
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Does it work if you surround the search criteria in quotes: "*.ascx*" ?
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It does, but you'd better prefix it with name:, otherwise it will also search content.
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Sound advice for a happier search experience!
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Nope. No results at all with the quotes.
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Weird. Worked for me.
Actually, it doesn't bloody work for me at all. That's having interpreted what you wrote and what you actually meant, of course.
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Apparently it needs to be indexed. Leave it to MS to require jumping through a hoop that's been set on fire in order to do something as common as searching for files.
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That looks handy, though I'm philosophically opposed to installing a utility just so I can search the file system. I may get over that objection, but geez! And they wonder why everyone hated Vista, or anything that smelled like it!
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Once you dump Windows Explorer, the rest is easy.
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Yeah I think the same way. Especially since I'm guessing there's loads of overhead in the background to do all this indexing etc and it's a shame if it's not even going to be used.
I guess there's some way to switch it off though - it was indexing service in earlier versions of windows, plus that stupid find fast thing that office insisted on installing even when you told it not to in the setup. Might have changed now.
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All right folks, let's not leave you all in the dark: RTFM![^] 
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