<shrug>
It works for me like you describe in your first paragraph, except you don't
have to right-click and select Search, just type what you're looking for in
the search box...
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Vista Home Premium 32 SP1
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"c" <barneytoe@xxxxxx> wrote in message
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Quote:
> I understand Vista search is more powerful, but with XP I used to
> navigate through windows explorer, find a folder name, right click and
> hit search, then choose "a word or phrase in the file", and my
> results would show up.
>
> Now, looks like I have to do this:
>
> 1) make sure folder is indexed
> 2) make sure you hit "include contents" in advanced search options
> 3) make sure the file extension is in the list of accepted file types
> for searching
>
> WTF? How can I just tell Vista, search ALL f'ing files in this f'ing
> directory for the following f'ing contents?
>
> I'm livid, if you can't tell.
>
> c