Interesting theory. Do you know the increase in resources that would be
involved with searching all of the tags in addition to just the names of the
files, and how much more time it would take? I have never written code to
access tags, so I don't have a clue as to the increased overhead/time to
search.

I appreciate the amount of involvement you have had with your post, not
abandoning it when many questions are asked (as many people do). Since you
seem to know a lot about this subject, do you know what the results of your
search would be in non Windows operating systems? Do you know whether this
limitation is Vista specific (I mean that none of hte other common OS's by
default search all accessible info)?

These are not critical questions, and you don't have to answer them, but
just interesting bits of trivia that I would be able to use to understand
this problem, and possible apply to others.



Ben

"auser" <auser@noemail.com> wrote in message
news:B1C4E00A-4FAF-40C6-8B94-198C574A5A54@microsoft.com...
> My theory is that even though I specify "name:" windows is still looking
> at the tags in the files (1000 mp3s). I can see and hear it churning away.
> If it were just looking at the name of the files it would pop up the list
> instantly, instead of the dog slow way it is.
>
>
> "Ben Enfield" <benfield@u.washington.edu> wrote in message
> news:93876F55-02E2-43DD-9EFF-EFC9C44F1731@microsoft.com...
>> Are you using Vista RTM?
>>
>> Ben
>>
>> "auser" <auser@noemail.com> wrote in message
>> news:0B4D84CF-99A0-4589-9AE3-22DF44C190E7@microsoft.com...
>>>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.
>>>>
>>>
>>
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