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Old 07-05-2007  
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Advanced Search

How to Use Advanced Search Options in Vista

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Last edited by dmex; 07-04-2008 at 05:37 PM..
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Old 11-25-2008  
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Re: Advanced Search

Hi Bleeping Crazy,

You could disable the index completely to have Vista always use a non-indexed search, and change the Search options to help fine tune it more. It will not check the box, but Vista would be using a non-indexed search anyways.

Hope this helps,
Shawn

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Old 1 Week Ago  
ralepertygal
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Unhappy Re: Advanced Search

My Vista always let me use my search and it would find any word on the computer (whether in a document or document name, etc.) Love it. I installed SP2 yesterday and when I use search...no matter what I put into it...I get nothing at all. HELP!
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Old 1 Week Ago  
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Re: Advanced Search

Hello Ralepertygal, and welcome to Vista Forums.

Have you already set your Search options for how you want your search results afterwards? Installing the SP2 can reset everything back to default.

Hope this helps for now,
Shawn
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Old 1 Week Ago  
ralepertygal
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Re: Advanced Search

Yeah I tried that just now but no matter what I set things at it tells me no items match your search. It just isn't actually searching for anything anywhere I don't think. SO Weird?

Last edited by ralepertygal; 1 Week Ago at 01:14 PM.. Reason: answered my own question
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Old 1 Week Ago  
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Re: Advanced Search

Something may have gotten corrupted during installation. You might see if running a sfc /scannow command may help, but you may need to do a clean reinstall.
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