Vista - Desktop Search and special characters

Hi, I need to search files or folders that have $ or § or # in the name
if I put a $ in the search box, I get near all the files in my hd... even if
they doesn't contain that char...
I use Vista (...), in XP with standard search (NOT desktop search) the
results were fine...
Any advice?!
thanks in advance

Hm, Im not sure why this question wasnt "good" enough to be answered. But frankly, its exactly the one I DO need answered.

I have files on my drive for my Vista that contains the special character "{" (without quotes obviously). But for those of you that know about vista you simply cannot do a start/search for that or any other special characters because its considered a wildcard.

So how do WE fix this and find the files we need to find? Of course the fella above me probably got his answer by now - but I need one as well.

This is REALLY starting to annoy me lol. So if anyone can help it would be appreciated.

Thanks
Kristi

On Tue, 8 Sep 2009 16:01:55 -0500, kristiambrose <guest@xxxxxx-email.com>
wrote:
[...snip...]Kristi,

Actually, the problem is a little different. Search is now word-based,
not character based. Brackets are considered punctuation by Search, not
wild cards. To get meaningful results, queries that contain punctuation
must also contain words, a phrase, or a wild card. For example, If I
search on this:[*] or this: {*} I get a bunch of files that have a phrase
in their file name within brackets, just as I would expect. So give that
a try.

Doug M. in NJ

Ok, but thats not what I asked lol.

I have files that contain { or }

Thousands of files I havent looked at for months. So I cant exactly go and search for

{tricycle}

Well I could, but it would take me weeks.