Sfor Posted April 2, 2015 Share Posted April 2, 2015 (edited) Well. I tried to find log files with a certain keyword in them, but the Windows XP just ignored the files with .B and .BLG extensions. When I did the same in Windows 2000 the files were located, correctly. So, there is quite a difference between the Windows 2000 and XP Find Files function. Is it possible to affect the way Windows XP searches the files? Or, should I rather use a different file search tool? Edited April 2, 2015 by Sfor Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
jaclaz Posted April 2, 2015 Share Posted April 2, 2015 It is a known issue: http://www.petri.com/windows_xp_search_bug.htm http://support.microsoft.com/en-us/kb/309173 Depending on the actual specific search, it may be faster to use other tools, namely on NTFS a file searching tool making use of the $MFT then feeding results to a string find tool (such as gsar). jaclaz Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Sfor Posted April 7, 2015 Author Share Posted April 7, 2015 Thank you, very much. I was able to turn the "files with unknown extension" search option on. It was a bit difficult to find it, because the Microsoft article is in English, while my Windows is in Polish. After quite a while I was able to overcome the translation related difficulties. They hid this option well, indeed. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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