"Dave" <dave@beepbeep.com> wrote in message
news:uAaHULe3HHA.3940@TK2MSFTNGP05.phx.gbl...
> You could make sure to use some of the 200 file types that WDS can
> index...
> http://www.microsoft.com/windows/des...earchtype.mspx
>
> http://channel9.msdn.com/wiki/defaul...SearchIFilters
>
> http://www.ifilter.org/
Dave, this is NOT a workable solution.
Scientific instruments often create their own file types and sometimes these
files need to be searched. Sometimes the files were created years ago.
Sometimes the same file types are used by different vendors, so the file
type alone doesn't say what's in a file. Can Microsoft distinguish between
an FCS file that is Fluorescent Correlation Spectroscopy data and an FCS
file that has Flow Cytometry Standard data? Or FCS files that have very
different versions by vendor of Fluorescent Correlation Spectroscopy data?
Give us a way to search in Vista that DOES NOT require indexing. Why is
VISTA taking a feature away that's worked since Windows 95? Searching for a
string and file filter at the same time is so difficult?
How can I get Windows Explorer for Windows 2000 working under Windows
Vista?. Is the capability in Windows Explorer from Windows 2000 too much to
ask for in Vista so we can search scientific data? Just copying the Windows
Explorer from Windows 2000 to Vista doesn't work. Can the registry be hacked
to make it work?
I don't want everything on my machines indexed, but I DO want to be able to
do a guided search from a specified directory. Microsoft's "blind search of
everything" approach is not acceptable. Why isn't Microsoft willing to help
scientists search files without imposing indexing by Microsoft?
So, I'll never be able to search a Linux file system with scientific data
until Microsoft indexes all the Linux files?
I can't believe how much time I've wasted trying to get a workable search in
Vista. I can't believe how much time it took to figure out the search in XP
was flawed and was not looking at all files.
>> Why won't Microsoft admit that search is a problem in Vista, that search
>> in Vista is "not adequate" and do something about it, instead of
>> frustrating scientists and engineers who are trying to search
>> scientific/engineering data using Vista?