After you do a search, you should have the search bar with the "Search
Tools" showing. After that choose "Search Options" and you can set to look
for text in files.

There must be a way to preset this before beginning a search, but I haven't
found it yet. :)

-Frank

"NPS" <n@s> wrote in message news:u%23W2yoLTHHA.4076@TK2MSFTNGP05.phx.gbl...[color=blue]
> Is it really the case that Vista cannot search inside files for text?[/color]