Can no longer search by "a word or phrase in the file"

[Guest PJM Windsor]

I used to use "search" regularly to find files that had been saved on my hard

drive. I would search "all files or folders", type in the name that I wanted

to find, ask for the in which I had stored the file, select the date range

within which I had created it, click search, and I would be shown a list of

the files containing that name, and then I could open the appropriate file.

I recently uninstalled Norton Security, ran defragment and checkdisk, then

installed Mcafee security. Since then I cannot search by word in a file. I

keep getting an answer that there are no files, even if I look in a file or

folder in which I know that a file containing that word, within that time

frame, exists. When my search function was working, I did try using both

Windows live desktop search and Google desktop for a time, but found that

neither worked as well as as simply going to "start" and "search" that I had

used both before and after trying those programmes. Have I unknowingly made

a change, that I cannot find in my settings, that is preventing me from

searching?

[Guest HeyBub]

Re: Can no longer search by "a word or phrase in the file"

 

PJM Windsor wrote:

> I used to use "search" regularly to find files that had been saved on

> my hard drive. I would search "all files or folders", type in the

> name that I wanted to find, ask for the in which I had stored the

> file, select the date range within which I had created it, click

> search, and I would be shown a list of the files containing that

> name, and then I could open the appropriate file. I recently

> uninstalled Norton Security, ran defragment and checkdisk, then

> installed Mcafee security. Since then I cannot search by word in a

> file. I keep getting an answer that there are no files, even if I

> look in a file or folder in which I know that a file containing that

> word, within that time frame, exists. When my search function was

> working, I did try using both Windows live desktop search and Google

> desktop for a time, but found that neither worked as well as as

> simply going to "start" and "search" that I had used both before and

> after trying those programmes. Have I unknowingly made a change,

> that I cannot find in my settings, that is preventing me from

> searching?

 

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