file indexing

For decades, Windows' search functionality has been a metaphorical needle lost in a haystack. We've all endured the frustration of waiting for the system to churn through endless files, only to blurt out "no results found" when you know the document is somewhere in the depths of your hard drive...

Hello, I am not a techie at all and wanted to see if someone could look at the results of my chkdsk and let me know if there are problems? I had some bad clusters and something called read failures. I'd really appreciate any help or light someone could shed on this. I have read up on this in...

Hi If you click search from the start button right click menu it opens a search panel on the right side of the screen. It has 3 categories, Everywhere, Files and Settings. If I type in the word "Lucy" (I picked Lucy because it's my animated character and there are a lot of files like Lucy...

Seems windows 7 doesn't have a clue on how to index files alphabetically inside folders, is there a hack or something in to tricking windows to do its job properly? all i want is files to be shown in alphabetical order, can anyone help?

I am having trouble searching for files on my Windows Home Server using Win 7 Clients. In Windows explorer, when you enter a name to be searched in the search bar (at the end of the address bar), nothing is shown - it does appear to be searching as the address bar gradually turns green, but...

Hi, I have a bunch of files and folders that i want hidden from the other users on my computer. I have one of two admin accounts, the rest are limited. I have set the correct permissions settings (Changing from Allow to Deny ) in C:\Users Now, when a user makes a search from within the START...

I was using Vista x32 Home Premium, WDS4 and IFilter to index text content in 20,000 PDFs with no problems. I just installed Windows 7 RC x64, which is supposed to have the WDS4 functionality built-in. I have swicthed on pdf content indexing in the Indexer control panel, enabled content...