You are probably searching files that are in indexed locations, I am not. I
know that indexing the files will potentially make it faster. But there are
many times I want to search files that are not indexed.

"cookey1956" <cookey1956@discussions.microsoft.com> wrote in message
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> 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.
>>