Vista - Restore "Find exact phrase" search feature

In Windows XP, I often used the advanced search features for find an exact
phrase in all of the doucments on one of my CD-ROMs. This allowed a quick
search of many Word documents, pdf documents, and HTML documents, searching
for a phrase like "Norwegian bachelor farmer". Now the Vista system does not
find an exact phrase -- the search will find documents containing Norwegian,
bachelor, and farmer, in any order, throughout the entire document, but not
the exact phrase. Augh! Very frustrating. I hate to lose a useful feature.

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Have you looked at this?
http://windowsvistablog.com/blogs/wi...echniques.aspx




"FrustratedVistaUser" <FrustratedVistaUser@discussions.microsoft.com> wrote
in message news:60F55A63-0704-467A-89AB-B95B0430C079@microsoft.com...
> In Windows XP, I often used the advanced search features for find an exact
> phrase in all of the doucments on one of my CD-ROMs. This allowed a quick
> search of many Word documents, pdf documents, and HTML documents,
> searching
> for a phrase like "Norwegian bachelor farmer". Now the Vista system does
> not
> find an exact phrase -- the search will find documents containing
> Norwegian,
> bachelor, and farmer, in any order, throughout the entire document, but
> not
> the exact phrase. Augh! Very frustrating. I hate to lose a useful
> feature.
>
> ----------------
> This post is a suggestion for Microsoft, and Microsoft responds to the
> suggestions with the most votes. To vote for this suggestion, click the "I
> Agree" button in the message pane. If you do not see the button, follow
> this
> link to open the suggestion in the Microsoft Web-based Newsreader and then
> click "I Agree" in the message pane.
>
> http://windowshelp.microsoft.com/com...ile_management

FrustratedVistaUser wrote:
> In Windows XP, I often used the advanced search features for find an exact
> phrase in all of the doucments on one of my CD-ROMs. This allowed a quick
> search of many Word documents, pdf documents, and HTML documents, searching
> for a phrase like "Norwegian bachelor farmer". Now the Vista system does not
> find an exact phrase -- the search will find documents containing Norwegian,
> bachelor, and farmer, in any order, throughout the entire document, but not
> the exact phrase. Augh! Very frustrating. I hate to lose a useful feature.
>
> ----------------
> This post is a suggestion for Microsoft, and Microsoft responds to the
> suggestions with the most votes. To vote for this suggestion, click the "I
> Agree" button in the message pane. If you do not see the button, follow this
> link to open the suggestion in the Microsoft Web-based Newsreader and then
> click "I Agree" in the message pane.
>
> http://windowshelp.microsoft.com/com...ile_management

In the 'Start Search' entry box enter your search criteria in quotes (at
least it works for me to only find the correct documents and not thousands).

On my system "Norwegian bachelor farmer" will not return the same
results as Norwegian bachelor farmer



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