Thanks Tony Yes I have tried that. It doesn't work.
However I've now downloaded something called Windows Grep which works just great http://www.wingrep.com/ Nick ----- Original Message ----- From: "Tony Weeg" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> To: "CF-Talk" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Sent: Sunday, February 16, 2003 5:08 PM Subject: RE: Searching CFM files in Windows XP > nick. > > its elementary, and still in there. > > Start ---> Search ---> All Files and Folders ---> All or Part of the > File Name ---> *.cfm > > hit enter, and it will default to searching all of the local hard drives > you have. > > have you tried this? > > tony > > -----Original Message----- > From: Nick de Voil [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]] > Sent: Sunday, February 16, 2003 6:17 AM > To: CF-Talk > Subject: OT: Searching CFM files in Windows XP > > > Hello everyone, > > I'm sure this must be in the archives but I can't find it. > > I've only had XP on my desktop machine for a couple of months. > > My Documents > Search > A word or phrase in the file > > doesn't work for me. It doesn't find the occurrences of the word. If I > search the same set of folders for the same word on W2K it works. I > never > had this problem on NT or W98 either. > > I found this using Google > > http://www.dougknox.com/xp/tips/xp_bad_search.htm > > but I can't believe that I need to edit the registry in order to get > such an > elementary operating system feature to work in market-leading software > that > was released well over a year ago. > > Any ideas? > > Nick > > > > > ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~| Archives: http://www.houseoffusion.com/cf_lists/index.cfm?forumid=4 Subscription: http://www.houseoffusion.com/cf_lists/index.cfm?method=subscribe&forumid=4 FAQ: http://www.thenetprofits.co.uk/coldfusion/faq Your ad could be here. Monies from ads go to support these lists and provide more resources for the community. http://www.fusionauthority.com/ads.cfm Unsubscribe: http://www.houseoffusion.com/cf_lists/unsubscribe.cfm?user=89.70.4
