Can someone with Win 2K please help me here. Best yet, can
some MVP duplicate it and report it to MS. I can't find
any reference to this issue on the Web, or in MS Knowledge
Base.
I have been able to duplicate this problem on two
different Win 2K installations.
Steps:
1. Win 2K installation, SP4 with .NET 1.1 installed
2. Does not matter how 'Show Hidden or System files'
options in Windows Explorer folders views are set.
3. Add the folder name 'VISUAL' to all subfolders of WINNT
4. Do Start/Search/Files or Folders
5. Search for VISUAL
6. Search stops finding after it gets to folder
WINNT\ASSEMBLY (but does not report finding in it)
7. Uninstall .NET.
8. Ensure \WINNT\ASSEMBLY (Fusion Cache) folder is deleted
9. Run Search as in 4,5 above
10. All matching results are returned as expected. Other
drives searched properly. (Add VISUAL folder to other
drives to check)
11. Reinstall .NET
12. Try 5 and 6 above again - search stops again, no
further drives searched.
In fact, it seems that any search string which is also
contained inside the \ASSEMBLY directory causes the search
to stop - eg 'MICROSOFT', 'BASIC', or even just 'SOFT'
or 'ASIC' stop the search, with .NET installed.
A search for a string that is NOT contained in this
ASSEMBLY directory performs as expected, returning all
instances of matching file/folder names.
I have also seen search 'stop' at my local settings\temp\
directory when it had bad stuff in it. It seems that the
folder \ASSEMBLY is not really a 'file' type folder,
rather a 'system' folder (e.g. Fonts), and Win 2K doesn't
know how to handle it.
I presume the patch would be needed for Win 2K rather
than .NET. XP and 2K3 seem OK (although how do I tell
search NOT to look in ZIP files on these Op Systems?)
mm
