Ambassador Posted April 16, 2008 Share Posted April 16, 2008 (edited) My XP search is broken. It won't search outside of C:\Documents and Settings, unless I specifically specify a directory. Is there someway to fix this?I am not using the Search Assistant (it is OFF); it uses the classic (2000) search instead. Edited April 16, 2008 by Ambassador Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Redhatcc Posted April 17, 2008 Share Posted April 17, 2008 only thing i can think of is Windows Repair? Takes a good bit of time though.... mabe someone else has a better idea lol Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
twig123 Posted April 18, 2008 Share Posted April 18, 2008 Is your Indexing Service stopped or disabled? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
fdv Posted April 18, 2008 Share Posted April 18, 2008 Hey, man! (waves)Open RegeditGo toHKEY_CURRENT_USER\Software\Microsoft\Windows\CurrentVersion\ExplorerYou will see values forIncludeSubFoldersSearchHiddenSearchSlowFilesSearchSystemDirsSet them all to 1. Then either restart Explorer or reboot the computer. (One hopes the reg settings will stay) Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Ambassador Posted April 20, 2008 Author Share Posted April 20, 2008 (edited) Hey, man! (waves)Open RegeditGo toHKEY_CURRENT_USER\Software\Microsoft\Windows\CurrentVersion\ExplorerYou will see values forIncludeSubFoldersSearchHiddenSearchSlowFilesSearchSystemDirsSet them all to 1. Then either restart Explorer or reboot the computer. (One hopes the reg settings will stay)I changed SearchSlowFiles to 1, since the rest of them were already 1. Then I logged off and on. It still only searches Documents and Settings, plus a handful of other folders.Example: I search WINNT (to see if it can find WINNT.BMP in the Windows directory):Results:Luckily I have Agent Ransack so this is only a minor issue. Edited April 20, 2008 by Ambassador Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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