I have found that Network shortcuts slow down the performance of the file
system considerably. Perhaps this is the case with your situation.

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HTH,

Kevin Spencer
Microsoft MVP
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"auser" <auser@noemail.com> wrote in message
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>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.