Reply to post: Re: Windows Search

Microsoft promises a fix for Windows 10 zip file woes. In November

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Re: Windows Search

"The old built-in search before Vista didn't have indexers so searching would actually mean the searcher going through whatever folder was specified to grab details, [...]"

At least on XP it found the files you wanted. The search on W7 often can't find things you know are in that directory - especially when you specify "content:".

It used to be easy to check a directory's source files for occurrence of a particular variable or string. Now you have to go through them each in turn manually.

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