You are not the only one.

I have been extremely frustrated with the new, "improved" search tool. I
routinely search for dates and times files were accessed, created, or
modified. The search for "accessed" no longer exists, as near as I can tell.
What I am searching for, often, is creation, access, or modification of
system files. There have been numerous times when I use the Advanced Search
capabilities to search everything (including hidden and system files) , it
takes forever (since much of that stuff is not indexed) and comes up blank.
I take a look manually (after jumping through all sorts of hoops to be
granted access to even look at my own files), and easily find a dozen files
that fit the search criteria.

It may be better at searching within files (which the old search tool only
pretended to be able to do), but is is a shadow of its former self with
respect to the functions I routinely used it to perform.

Nancy

"JethroUK©" wrote:

> Despite Vista search being hailed (by Microsoft) as 'a main feature', Vista
> search has bugs - such that some things it simply can not find
>
> A search system that can not find 'some' things is as useless as one that
> can not find 'any' things
>
> Are Microsoft working around the clock to fix it? Will it be fixed by
> Monday? Am I the only person that thinks this renders the whole O/S close to
> scrap?
>
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