search issues

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...

Hwy there everyone. Happy windows 7 user here. Had it since it came out, however recently I have been experiencing my laptop really slowly whenever I perform a search in the start bar field. So I hit start, search for a program and document. Sometimes it finds it, sometimes not, but nearly...

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 All. I am hoping to get some additional assistance for resolving another "windows cannot find 'search:query=XXX'" error I have been experiencing lately. The problem is similar to the one I described previously (here: Link Removed - Invalid URL) ...namely, I am running Windows 7...

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...

Hi All, Let me inform you first about what ive already tried: 1. Changed indexing folder 2. Rebuilding 3. Googleing 4. Searching this forum 5. Restarted Windows Search service 6. Removed shareing for Users folder 6. Ensured all folders i want indexed have System security on it with...

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...

my search menu on the start page won't allow any keyboard commands i can't type anything into it how do i fix that?

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...

Hi. I've had this weird problem ever since i reinstalled Windows 7 some weeks ago. If I search after a program in the start menu search bar, it'll find anything but program-files. E.g. searching for "notepad" will bring back pictures with notepad in name, readme-files, logfiles from messenger...

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

Whenever I try to search in my Start Menu, I only get ghost search results which I cannot open: In many places I have seen instructions to delete the HKEY_CURRENT_USER\Software\Microsoft\Windows\CurrentVersion\Explorer\FolderTypes\{ef87b4cb-f2ce-4785-8658-4ca6c63e38c6} key in order to fix...