Vista full text search extremely limited?

[pcartier]

Thanks for your reply .. had a quick look at Agent Ransack and it looks like this will do the trick. As for your tip about indexing ... thanks , but I have tried it ... and many other options.
The point is that the Vista search is simply unreliable. Sometimes it works and sometimes not ... even on the SAME directory with the same arguments. I need something that is simple to trigger and that I KNOW will work every time!

[pcartier]

Quote:

Originally Posted by Toshiba

Hi pcartier
Go to your folder options in the control panel and click on the search tab.
There
you can make changes to your search options. Hope this helps.


"pcartier" <pcartier.3cpos6@no-mx.forums.vistaheads.com> wrote in message
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> I have finally had it with Vista's utterly useless search with it's
> unpredictable failures ...
> Does anybody know of a good and stable 3rd party search tool which will
> do what Vista cannot ... perform targeted full text searches recursively
> through a file tree based on a simple initial directory selection ...
> and which is guaranteed to work each and evey time!
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Thanks for this my friend ... but I have been tried all the search options in every possible combination many times. Apart from being irritatingly unintuitive and appallingly slow Vista seach simply does not work reliably ... or at all sometimes!! I can prove it! But I know it anyway from the many comments on this and other newsgroups. The reason I asked for a 3rd party tool is that when I am working fast I need a reliable search tool which works. I don't want to spend hours ploughing through newsgroups to find solutions to this sort of basic functionality!