file search erroneously leaves out search hits

[Bob]

My login has administrator rights to this computer. It's running Windows
2000 Professional SP3 with all the latest updates. It does not have indexing
service running.

I did a simple search of C:\ for files/folders containing a name. I then did
the exact same search on C:\Program Files and C:\Documents and Settings, and
found files that the first search missed. In all three cases the search
subfolders option was checked.

How am I supposed to do my job when something so simple doesn't work? This
is absolutely unacceptable. I want an acknowledgement of the problem from
Microsoft with a knowledge base article and a date when it will be fixed.

Bob

[George Hester]

Well I hope you get what you expect from Microsoft. Unfortunatley if you
are in the minority that may not happen. If you want to do your job with a
modicum of confidence you could go into the command prompt at the root drive
and type in dir /s *.*. That will find everything. You manipulate that
with various wild cards and letters\numbers to be more specific.

--
George Hester
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"Bob" <noe...@nospam.net> wrote in message
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[Bob]

Minortiy or no, I would think such a glaring problem in a simple, essential
feature would drive even the most shameless developer to action. I cannot
comprehend people who have no pride in their work. They should be flipping
burgers, not developing software.

Now I'm starting to rant... *sigh*

Thanks for the suggestion,
Bob

"George Hester" <heste...@hotmail.com> wrote in message
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[Mike Brearley]

Just because you're having this problem, doesn't necessarily mean that
there's a flaw in the software (and I say that with caution because there
are obviously flaws). The problem your having could have been caused by a
multitude of things not related to a shameless developer.

Why don't you just use Linux or an Apple and then complain about them. With
software as complicated as Windows, there are going to be some developer
errors and it's not because they don't take pride in their work, it's
because of the level of complexity. Try developing something even remotely
complicated and let me know if you get it right the first, second or even
third time without having to make some minor changes. Even if you take
pride in your work, there will be some errors. So in essence, chill out
dude!!!!!

Thanks,
Mike

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[Bob]

Yes, it *does* necessarily mean that there is a flaw in the software. The UI
file search fails where DIR /S succeeds. End of story. I don't care what the
cause, it should not be possible. Windows failed to protect or maintain
whatever silly, undocumented, denormalized file index it had for the disk
and apparently has no self-correcting mechanism. File search has been a
feature of OS's for decades. Is our march toward 'better' always in the
direction of unreliability? Let's pile all sorts of complexity on top of
something that should be simple. Sorry, I don't buy the complicated software
defense in this case. Sometimes complexity is just not appropriate. The
feature was either made too complicated or with egregious ineptitude.

Bob

"Mike Brearley" <kur...@NOSPAMhotmailBLOCKIT.com> wrote in message
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[Mike Brearley]

Do you have other Windows 2000 systems? Does the GUI file search work with
them?

It's possible for anything on your system to break, just
corrupt/delete/replace the right files and I'm sure you'll find you can
break many components of Windows 2000. Microsoft cannot and will not be
held liable for poorly written third party software or for dumb users. If
you want something better, get XP and make restore points when you're system
is running great, if something breaks it, go back to the restore point.

Have you tried a repair install on the system to see if that fixes the GUI
search?

Mike

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