search and find in Win-XP

[gbhall]

search and find from the start menu or from explorer context menu is just APPALLING !!

Sometimes one finds another search app called 'file finder' under the context menu, but I don't think this is standard.

Somewhere long ago, I seem to remember someone advising how the Win2K search/find could be imported into XP, and how much of a relief that would be all round!

I just cannot turn up that method - can anyone help?

 

[DelJo63]

hum; it seams to work for me, so what is it you so distain and can you describe
what you have found that is different?

 

[gbhall]

simply does not work at all in some cases (e.g. .msg files - seems to think these must not be searched).

Start from the start button, and you first have to say what you are searching for....twice.....
'Look in' drop down box does not allow browsing to a desired sub-directory....
stupid animated characters ......

 

[DelJo63]

I admit that I never use that scenario, but rather navigate to the folder
of interest and use the right-click context search.

 

[gbhall]

solution found

For anyone interested, I discovered SearchWin software (shareware), which is excellent - and extrsordinarily flexible. Only snag I hit was taking a little while to discover that by default, only certain types of file are searched for content. There is, however, a simple and effective procedure for choosing your own set of file types, which solved my previous problem of not being able to search .msg files.