Guest Nick Posted January 24, 2008 Posted January 24, 2008 Search inside .BAS and .FRM files We are trying to search network shared directories and NEED to look inside ..BAS and .FRM file formats for specific word or characters strings. These files can be opened with a basic text editor but the built-in Microsoft Search engine will not look into these files. I was told by a Microsoft Senior Product Manager that certain file extensions have been removed from the searching engine in order to speed up searches. I don't know if this is true but I do know that I cannot currently search inside these files now. Is there a registry hack or other means that would let us search inside these files? We have File server is Windows 2003 SP1 Client is Windows XP SP2 (with all the latest updates and patches from MS) Thanks!
Guest Nick Posted January 24, 2008 Posted January 24, 2008 Re: Search inside .BAS and .FRM files Solution found! Method 2 To configure Windows XP to search all files no matter what the file type, obtain the latest service pack for Windows XP and then turn on the Index file types with unknown extensions option. If you use this method, Windows XP searches all file types for the text that you specify. This can affect the performance of the search functionality. To do this: 1. Click Start, and then click Search (or point to Search, and then click For Files or Folders). 2. Click Change preferences, and then click With Indexing Service (for faster local searches). 3. Click Change Indexing Service Settings (Advanced). Note that you do not have to turn on the Index service. 4. On the toolbar, click Show/Hide Console Tree. 5. In the left pane, right-click Indexing Service on Local Machine, and then click Properties. 6. On the Generation tab, click to select the Index files with unknown extensions check box, and then click OK. 7. Close the Indexing Service console. Warning Serious problems might occur if you modify the registry incorrectly by using Registry Editor or by using another method. These problems might require that you reinstall your operating system. Microsoft cannot guarantee that these problems can be solved. Modify the registry at your own risk. Network administrators can configure this setting by modifying the registry. To do this, set the FilterFilesWithUnknownExtensions DWORD value to 1 in the following registry key: HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE\SYSTEM\CurrentControlSet\Control\ContentIndex "Nick" <DY@discussions.microsoft.com> wrote in message news:238DF9F0-A045-4814-A6DF-953F5107FA94@microsoft.com... > Search inside .BAS and .FRM files > > We are trying to search network shared directories and NEED to look inside > .BAS and .FRM file formats for specific word or characters strings. These > files can be opened with a basic text editor but the built-in Microsoft > Search engine will not look into these files. I was told by a Microsoft > Senior Product Manager that certain file extensions have been removed from > the searching engine in order to speed up searches. I don't know if this > is true but I do know that I cannot currently search inside these files > now. Is there a registry hack or other means that would let us search > inside these files? We have > > File server is Windows 2003 SP1 > Client is Windows XP SP2 (with all the latest updates and patches from MS) > > Thanks! > > > >
Guest mayayana Posted January 25, 2008 Posted January 25, 2008 Re: Search inside .BAS and .FRM files You could also try the free version of Agent Ransack. Search has been broken in Windows since XP. Having to index all of your files before it can work is ludicrous, resulting in unnecessary disk wear. I can search inside all files on a drive quickly in Win98 and there's no indexing. It's a mystery to me how Microsoft could have screwed up such a basic thing, especially since search is such a hot topic for them.
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