This is probably a side effect of the "Virtualization" system,
I think that is tech speak for "A faster and more comprehensive way to
lose things".
Also check your hard drive's properties and uncheck "Index this drive"
since that becomes worse than useless too. Slows you down plenty put
still can't find anything
Tiberius wrote:
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> My Advice: disable the search indexing service
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> "Ninjak on FW" <shawnn@xxxxxx> wrote in message
> news:1191015685.164393.176160@xxxxxx Quote:
>> I have Vista Business, latest patch.
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>> In Vista Search I specify location: Local Hard Drives (C, searching
>> for file "*.837". Search finds one SHORTCUT in my Recent items folder.
>> That's not right...
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>> I bring up the command prompt and from C: I do "dir/w/s *.837". Guess
>> what, my files are right there in C:\Users\Me.
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>> WTF Microsoft?!?! Do I have to go back to command line search to find
>> files now?
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