Hi, I am a bit of a novice, but I have had no such problems, I am using RC1
and the results are on the screen before I even finish typing in the name.

I always use the search from the start menu, if that makes any difference.
Hope this helps someone.
Cookey.

"auser" wrote:

> 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.
>