All of the things you describe here can be done with the built-in Vista
search. If the indexer is not running or if you are searching a non-indexed
location then search is done without the index, which may be slower but will
still work.
"Celegans" <Celegans@nospam.nospam> wrote in message
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> "Jerry" <jhuffman@triad.rr.com> wrote in message
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>> Try this: Go to Computer and Right-Click on each Partition and select
>> properties. At the bottom of the Properties box you should have an
>> Indexing Option. The box should be checked for Indexing to be turned on.
>> BTW it should have been on by default.
>
> So it's not possible to search a CD/DVD if it's not indexed? Is this a
> new design "feature"?
>
> If one is working with networked drives that are mapped to Linux
> resources, it's not possible to search files on these drives until they're
> indexed? What if I don't want to index GB of files on a Linux network
> resource, but what if I want to search selected wildcarded files in a
> selected directory for a specific target string on that resource? This
> type of search worked in Windows 2000. This search cannot not be done in
> Vista because the Linux network drive is not indexed for Vista?
>
> Searching "faster" with indexed files is nice, but what about all the
> files that cannot be searched at all now? What about all the files that
> are not indexed? Why isn't there an Vista Ultimate tool that allows
> searching all files whether they are indexed or not? What did I really
> get for "Ultimate" Vista?
>
> Since Windows Vista search is defective, one now must buy a 3-rd party
> tool, like SSScanner to do searches that used to work in Windows 2000?
> http://www.kryltech.com/scanner.htm Shouldn't Microsoft just buy Kryloff
> Technologies and help Vista customers with a better search -- one that can
> always work? Note Kryloff even markets their product "SSScanner enhances
> searches in Windows Vista" on their web page. My take: SSScanner fixes a
> defective Vista search strategy. I've now got to pay Kryloff
> Technologies $99.95 to fix Vista's search. Can I send the bill to Bill?
>