As someone on the thread mentionned, by default Vista search searches both
the filename and contents of the file.
If you just want to search for the filename, type filename: before your
search word.
If you want to search for a phrase then enclose it in double-quotes.
If you want to limit the search to a specific directory then probably
easiest is to browse to that directory and use the search box in that
Explorer window, which will limit the search to just the directory you are
in.
"Pru Joy" <Pru
Joy@discussions.microsoft.com> wrote in message
news:2DD7A689-E3A8-4843-A50B-019559C93FC3@microsoft.com...
>I am with you Leanna - I have followed all of Vista's search demos & it
> certainly is not able to do any kind of "phrase" searching at all even
> with
> "commas" - whereas XP just did it with no complication at all - & although
> it
> looks very pretty, I am 100% frustrated with Vista - Windows Calendar did
> not
> work at all & the hotfix patch that was emailed to me - crashed the
> operating
> system on restart & I had to get a new key fr Microsoft to restart it
> which
> took me hours. BTW, at least the Calendar works now!
>
> "Leanna" wrote:
>
>> Hi, I have a similar problem: In XP i could just type the search word,
>> and it
>> came up with a list of files having that word in the title. But in Vista,
>> I
>> type the word and before I'm done typing it is bringing up all kinds of
>> junk
>> that has no relationship at all with the word I typed. PLEASE HELP!
>> (This
>> added to multiple other outrages I am suffering from this worthless Vista
>> OS
>> is ensuring that as soon as possible I will be stripping this trash off
>> of my
>> computer and reinstalling good ol' XP... Microsoft should apologize by
>> giving
>> us a free download to "upgrade" back to XP!)
>>
>> "Ilia Sacson [MS]" wrote:
>>
>> > Hello,
>> > To search all indexed locations for the document files, open Start ->
>> > Search, search for *.doc (slow) or ext:doc (fast). You can
>> > also type in some words from the documents.
>> > Thanks,
>> > Ilia
>> >
>> > "outtolunch" <u35433@uwe> wrote in message news:74637d72336ae@uwe...
>> > > I'm not sure if I'm just dense but in XP under Advanced Search it was
>> > > easy to
>> > > search documents for text even if you didn't know the documents name.
>> > > You
>> > > could type in *.* or *.doc and then do a search for specific word or
>> > > text. I
>> > > am unable to see how this is done in Vista. Can someone point to the
>> > > solution?
>> > >
>> > >
>> >
>> >