I don't want or care about the indexer (although, i don't really see a need
to turn it off). I am not searching for tag information or inside the files.
I am just searching for name in the first case. It should be at least as
fast as XP.
No, I am not doing other things.


"Ben Enfield" <benfield@u.washington.edu> wrote in message
news:789551C2-9760-457A-B4E4-5F2D0A0740A9@microsoft.com...
> Sounds interesting, can you provide more information relevent to the
> problem. The following are questions I have.
>
> Do you have fast file searching turned on?
> Have you let the indexer index (can take a few days)?
> Are you doing many other things while searching?
>
> Ben
>
> "auser" <auser@noemail.com> wrote in message
> news:71A89ECA-B398-4428-B969-B6C3D364F113@microsoft.com...
>>I don't understand why searching in vista is so slow.
>> I have a folder filled with a bunch of subfolders with about 1000 mp3s. I
>> right click the folder and select search and type in "name:*.mp3". This
>> list should be done in 2 seconds. But instead it takes minutes. What is
>> it looking for? I purposely specified the "name:" part so it wouldn't
>> look inside of the files in the folders.
>>
>> Another thing I hate: I want to search for all txt files with the name
>> john in it (once again non-indexed). I search for "john name:*.txt". The
>> problem with this is that not only will it bring up all txt files with
>> the name john in it, it will also bring up all txt files with john in the
>> title of the file. I dont want to see the files with the name in the
>> title, just the contents.
>>
>> In xp, either scenario would not exit.
>