surreal Posted June 7, 2005 Share Posted June 7, 2005 Hi,I have recently built a 2k3 w/sp1 machine and have been trying to use windows file search feature to find a file containing a certain word. After much cursing from not finding it, I realised that by default, Windows search does not look within .doc files.I dont know if this is because they are binary files or something, but I need to know if I can make Windows search within these files when doing such tasks. I dont want to have to install any software such as M$Word/Word Viewer unless I have to.Any ideas?thanks in advance--aaron Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Martin Zugec Posted June 7, 2005 Share Posted June 7, 2005 MSN Desktop Seach? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
surreal Posted June 8, 2005 Author Share Posted June 8, 2005 Thanks, but is there anyway to enable searching within documents (.doc) without the installation of any tools?I was hoping more along the lines of that you had to 'register' the file format with windows search or something, or a registry hack to enable it...I might be clutching at straws here and may have to install another application... Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
surreal Posted June 27, 2005 Author Share Posted June 27, 2005 Found the answer, just in case anyone else has the same problem:Modify the registry for each file type that you want to search within (e.g. .doc as in the below example) to include a PersistentHandler value.reg add HKCR\.doc\PersistentHandler /d {5e941d80-bf96-11cd-b579-08002b30bfeb} /t REG_SZ /fWill require a restart for the change to become effective. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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