How to make File Explorer Search Work

[Tina]

Ok, I got a new dev box and I forgot the Rube Goldberg procedure I need to
go through to make File Explorers search really work. I've done it before
but now I have forgotten. I don't know why MS doesn't make it work out of
the box.

For instance if I search for *.config and put the word appSettings in where
it says
"a word or phrase in the file" it doesn't find any but they are certainly
there.

Help!!
Thanks,
T

[Andrew Morton]

Tina wrote:

Ok, I got a new dev box and I forgot the Rube Goldberg procedure I
need to go through to make File Explorers search really work. I've
done it before but now I have forgotten. I don't know why MS doesn't
make it work out of the box.

For instance if I search for *.config and put the word appSettings in
where it says
"a word or phrase in the file" it doesn't find any but they are
certainly there.

You appear to be in the wrong newsgroup for the topic of your question: this
newsgroup is for ASP.NET; you want one dealing with Windows XP.

Of course, if you googled for
xp search all files

you would already have found the answer...

Andrew

[Alexey Smirnov]

On Oct 9, 1:11 am, "Tina" <[e-mail]:

Ok, I got a new dev box and I forgot the Rube Goldberg procedure I need to
go through to make File Explorers search really work. I've done it before
but now I have forgotten. I don't know why MS doesn't make it work out of
the box.

For instance if I search for *.config and put the word appSettings in where
it says
"a word or phrase in the file" it doesn't find any but they are certainly
there.

Help!!
Thanks,
T

You have to enable Indexing Service on your box. And it has to index
files with unknown extension.

But this is a wrong group :-)