"Ringmaster" <bigtop@VistaGeneralCircus.net> wrote in message
news:s87fd49ht2llv4urf63obul91nrtsrgqgo@4ax.com...
> On Mon, 22 Sep 2008 03:20:57 -0700 (PDT), Franz <graf.franz@gmail.com>
> wrote:
>
>>Hi,
>>
>>Vista Search does not find Start Menu entries by typing parts of the
>>name in the search box.
>>
>>For example, if I type "Mail", Vista does not find Windows Mail or
>>Windows Live Mail (both are installed).
>>If I Type "Windows", then Windows Mail is found, but not Windows Live
>>Mail.
>>
>>Other Example:
>>Foto Gallery (I use the German Version "Windows-Fotogalerie") is found
>>by typing "fotog", but not by typing "foto".
>>
>>The strange thing is, that it did work before. On my other Vista
>>computer it's working fine too.
>>
>>I checked the indexing settings to be sure that the start menu is
>>indexed. I already did rebuilding the index.
>>
>>Does anyone experience the same or does anyone has a hint for me?
>>
>>Thanks,
>>Franz
>
> Just for fun I entered everything in search that's on my Start Menu
> and Search found it, often before I finished typing it in. Why your
> install no longer does, I have no idea other to say it's Windows and
> we all know Windows does whatever it wants often without rhyme or
> reason.

No - only you know that you can't figure out how your copy of Windows works.
Windows works for most. There is rhyme and reason, but in your world there
isn't. Better clean off your machine and do a proper install. You keep
whining all the time.