Have you looked at this?
http://windowsvistablog.com/blogs/wi...echniques.aspx
"FrustratedVistaUser" <FrustratedVistaUser@discussions.microsoft.com> wrote
in message news:60F55A63-0704-467A-89AB-B95B0430C079@microsoft.com...
> In Windows XP, I often used the advanced search features for find an exact
> phrase in all of the doucments on one of my CD-ROMs. This allowed a quick
> search of many Word documents, pdf documents, and HTML documents,
> searching
> for a phrase like "Norwegian bachelor farmer". Now the Vista system does
> not
> find an exact phrase -- the search will find documents containing
> Norwegian,
> bachelor, and farmer, in any order, throughout the entire document, but
> not
> the exact phrase. Augh! Very frustrating. I hate to lose a useful
> feature.
>
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