search issues

I just gotta post about this, because what a dumb thing to wreck the basic search functionality on computers we paid a lot of money for. Dedicated PC user for forever - yet - I am seriously thinking I have got to bite the bullet for a mac next time which ticks me off but this is ridiculous...

(I think) I accidently moved one folder into another. When I went into the folder to change it back, the folder did not contain the folder I thought I moved... So I did a global search of disk to locate to where it had been moved. Sure enough, the search (gratefully) found the folder I was...

when I am in a airline page placing in the required destination dates etc when i hit search the page goes for a seach but cant find the page a screen jsut gives Internet cant find the displayed web page I have java , flash installed and works ok reset internet to default

So multiple times I randomly get a BSOD, sometimes my computer freezes also, like the mouse wont even move, I left my computer on my desk it closed(laptop) I went to the library and back and when I get come It is off, when I restart it says windows crashed, I went to the reports and got this...

Hello This is my first post but I have been reading the forums for a while already. I am puzzled by how to search for special characters in W7. I have some files that start with the Greek letter µ but I don't seem to find a way to make WS recognize characters like these for searches. When I...

I've made sure that the file typoe that I'm searching is included in the searches, I've indexed search on my computer to make sure everything is inluded but it's still not finding what I'm looking for. I'm searching for an image file(.png) that I know is on my computer(and I have several of...

iv downloaded msn messanger like a million times and it says installed successfully. but when i go to use it, its knowhere to be found. done all the searches and nothing?

Hi I have been having problems with Windows Search, it finds files that are not there, and won't find some files that are. This relates mostly to a program that was uninstalled and then reinstalled in a new location on my D:\ drive. It has a lot of texture files etc. that go with the...

Overwhelmed by the information storm, in the web sphere, I still didn't get it how to perform an old fashioned file search. I was looking for a file (extend.dat) in the Users folders and used Search to achieve this but it would not return any match, using the name: filter, wildcards, partial...

I have recently purchased a Dell Studio XPS 8100 with Intel i7 processor and 8GB RAM, running Windows 7 Home Premium and preloaded with McAfee Security Center and Office 2010. I have copied across to the hard disk several thousand documents, mostly created in Office 2003, from my previous...

when i click on the rss icon i get a page saying" subscribe to this feed using" then there is a drop down box that offers some suggestions and " choose an application" is one of them. it is there that i get stuck. i wan to use one of my applications(tversity) to subscribe to the feed...

Greetings! I just upgraded from WinXP to Windows 7. I have a folder with a lot of files that have either plus or minus/dashes ("-") in the file name, sometimes more than one. For example, some filenames might be: Matterhorn +++.wmv Space Mountain ++-.avi Star Tours +.mp3 Star Tours (second...

Greetings! I just upgraded from WinXP to Windows 7. I have a folder with a lot of files that have either plus or minus/dashes ("-") in the file name, sometimes more than one. For example, some filenames might be: Matterhorn +++.wmv Space Mountain ++-.avi Star Tours +.mp3 Star Tours (second...

Folks, OK, I've had enough of things I can't see. How for example, can I find and view all files named "index.dat". If you enter this into the search bar, you won't find any, but I assure you, there are dozens on the typical system. And that's just the tip of the iceberg. There're many...

Hi I was missing a shortcut to IE on my VM (xp mode) so I created a shortcut using the wizard on my virtual machine. The name was IEplorer.exe. I renamed it in windows 7 to find it the easy way to internet explorer. But I have the following issue when I type in 'search programs and files' box...

hi guys i just bought HP laptop DV6 , windows7 , i took all the videos and pictures from my old pc and put them in my new laptop i installed programs like photoshop , illustrator and coral painter after a few days suddenly i found my picture and video folder are empty !!!!!!am so...

Search for folder - [no joy in the discussion thread, so thought I'd try here] This seems really simple, and makes me feel pretty stupid, but I want to search for folders with a certain name without getting all the contents of the folders in the search results. I've tried just entering the...

Hey, whenever i type something into the search bar on the top right in window explorer, nothing happens. It usually gives a bunch of files that has something related to what i typed in the box. Now nothing happens when i type it in. Even when i do enter. Please help

I'm hoping someone can demystify my issue here. Scenario: - I have a file server running on Windows XP Pro we'll call it XPServer - I have two windows 7 Pro PC's, that we'll call 7Office and 7HTPC. It took me a bit to figure it out, but the windows 7 help file told me in order to call a shared...

I have Windows 7 Home Premium Version. I am fairly certain that this version comes with Windows Media Center. However I absolutely can not find it. It isn't listed under All Programs and searching for it returns no results. I really don't have a clue what's going on. Perhaps someone here can...