When I perform a search in the Search Results window, showing any kind of icon view (instead of list, details, or tiles), the results show up without file names visible. This only happens when I run a search from the Search Results window (Windows Key + F), not when I run a search from a folder window.
View 9 RepliesWhen I open a folder with a list of files for all View Options, the files are not listed in proper ascending sequence. I indexed the files to make sure that indexing may not be the factor in the Sort By Name not working properly. After the files were indexed, clicked the Sort By Name item in the View menu item, and the files are stilled not sorted porperly. Has anyone encountered this similar problem ? I suspect this may be a bug in Windows Vista File System. The folder had 87 files in it.
View 9 Replies View Relatedi wright games and i just finished a new version of the old mmorpg ragnarok online and well all te file names are wrong when read on a vista computer. for example.(????????????)was changed to(_??AI??U)the only reason i can think of is the os is changeing the file name. the language is korien i think.... but i use it for all encrypted file names so no 1 else can edit them.
View 5 Replies View RelatedI am trying to number file names sequentially. It works, but not how I would like. I am trying to number file names as: Filename (10), Filename (11), Filename (12). What I get is: Filename (10), Filename (2), Filename (3)... How do I do what I want?
View 4 Replies View RelatedI'm running Vista Ultimate 32bit, and on one particular drive, I had backed up some files with extremely long names from a different system. The kind of stuff you find as temp files in the "Content.IE5" sub directory of "Temporary Internet Files."
Now, I'm trying to delete a parent directory where all these files are located. But Vista, in it's ultimate wisdom is giving me an error, indicating that it cannot delete these files becuse the overall path is too long - It suggested I move the files to a place with a "shorter path," but when I try, it won't let me do it for the same damned reason! The Source path is too long Nothing works.
Attempting to delete individual files, the parent directory, the "grand parent" directory all fail because Vista attempts to calculate/sum space and thus accesses each individual file, and fails because the "path is too long." When I try to rename individual files, it grays out the "rename" option. Is there any way I can either get rid of these files or bypass the "file length" warning so I can delete them? Formatting the drive is *not* an option. This is a SAN drive with lots of stuff on it and I'd never be able to off load it all.
When I turned my computer on today it seems that all of my filenames have 'disappeared' - the files are still called the same that I named them, but instead of them showing the titles, they either show the date modified or only certain details. I mainly have music on my hard drive, and now the folder looks like this:
As you can see, on the left in the folder tree, the path is showing up, the files are still there etc, but instead of the track titles, there is now only the artist and album? I have tried shift and view, tried different views, tried changing the folder view to pictures and videos etc, I have also completely scanned the drives and there doesn't seem to be any problems? Under 'folder options' I have tried showing all extensions etc, showing hidden files, different customizing of views:...........
I've got a large.dbx file of a OE6 folder from another computer sitting on my desktop. how do i prevent all names showing when i click 'to'
View 7 Replies View RelatedIve sorted all my music into folders, but some don't have artist/album names, such as: i've right clicked and clicked rename, but it comes up as: i've also clicked properties etc, but no joy there: has anyone any idea how to do this? im on Windows Vista Basic.and its just your average folder. its really bugging me!
View 8 Replies View RelatedI can't find a way to search for file types in Vista without entering part of a file name. For example, if I want to search my C drive for all PDF files or all photos, the search function won't work without entering text from a file name (which doesn't work, because all files of a particular type don't necessarily share letters or characteristics in their names). Has anyone else experienced this problem, or am I missing something?
View 5 Replies View RelatedI have a file in my appdata folder that I'd like to check and see if duplicates exist in other (sub) folders. I copy the filename exactly and then paste it in the search box on the start button. Vista says there are no such files. Meanwhile I'm looking at at least one copy of the file in another window?
How can I search my entire harddrive for a file since the old XP search seems to have been removed?
Vista Home Premium x64 SP1, HP Pavilion desktop, file search by partial name fails when filename contains numbers, search options to include subfolders and find partial matches both checked
example - 5 text files
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test1970bar.txt
bar1970test.txt
1970bartest.txt
1970.txt
10027011.txt........
In windows XP's search options you could use the option to find a phrase within a set of files. I want to search all .bat files for the phrase "Z:" How do I do this in vista?
View 9 Replies View RelatedWhere is the setting on Vista which lets you change your search settings, so that you can search only part of the file name, and the file will come up. Someone changed it on my dad's computer, and I have been looking for about an hour, and I still can't find it.
View 5 Replies View RelatedI just found this file (XMNWGVTYGPFSUWS.scr) in C:Program FilesSpybot Directory - but can't find any reference to a screensaver in the Help files. Does this file belong there?
View 7 Replies View Relatedi want to search for a file, that it only shows the exact name of files, exampe, i want to search a file its name (snowsmoke) it will not show me every file that contain the name snow & the name smokw, it will only show the file if i write the exact name, sometimes i only remmeber a part of the name and type it and search for it but it does not display the file, saw is there any tip to search and display all files that contain the name?
View 4 Replies View RelatedWindows Vista's file search is maybe for just casual searches, not for serious searches. I often need to find files with various criteria such as file size, date or string in the text and so on. Is there any file search utility that you would recommend?
View 7 Replies View RelatedI am trying to install a game on my laptop, but it will not auto run and i cannot locate the file to search through the disc. Also music CDs arent working, how do i make sure that the disc drive was installed properly?
View 5 Replies View RelatedI've got a hard copy of an Excel file but it doesn't have a title. I don't know the file name nor do I know the date that it was done. In Windows Vista (Enterprise 2007) is there a way to search for a file on my computer based on key words in the file content?
View 4 Replies View RelatedI have an issue that I have just notied several files that I deleted over a month ago are still visible when doing searches on my computer. When trying to delete that I'm told that it is "no longer located in" the folder it was.
When looking in the original folder the files were in they are not visible.
They can only be seen when doing a search. Does anyone know how to completely get rid of them?
I believe this should happen automatically, but it does not appear to have worked as it was a long time ago that I originally deleted them.
WindowsXp was the best OS ever, after a few registry patches (e.g. notorious failing Search by file contents), a few tweaks, and in my case total COLORS customization, and in Classic mode, in the end it wasd the best.it took several days to customize, and one. With Vista, it's a dead end. Explorer forgets views. Mail needs a fix before it can open doc, pdf, etc attachments form within mail instead of saving first Black background or COlorSchemes in egenral is a problem if you dare to select it............
View 9 Replies View RelatedI performed a "search" for a portion of a name of an encryption program that we deleted from our computer because it didn't appear to be fully compatible with vista, even tho the creators said it was (they did admit tho that they didn't test it)...the "search" turned up 335 items, most of which were "image files". We cannot delete the thumbnails because it says the file or folder has been deleted. These items came up as search results in indexed locations. we tried to go to the location and delete that way with no luck.
View 6 Replies View RelatedI am using Vista Business on my laptop, and I have downloaded the extension that lets me search my Lotus notes emails also. The problem is that this seems to lead to an ever-increasing mail file in Lotus. I am now at a 10 GB (!!) mail file, and it seems to be growing every time I use the desktop search. this not limited to Vista, btw, other people have the same problem under XP. Has anybody seen this before, and if so, is there a solution to this? Obviously, at some point I will run out of HD space...Sorry if this is the wrong forum. If so, where should I post this?
View 4 Replies View RelatedWhy can't I search and find all locations of a specific file extension? I used to be able to do that! When I try it now it only allows the search in one directory!
I'm not new to windows or computers.
Vista search seems to be trying to do far more than I want; as a result I often get no useful results. What I almost always want is a simple file name search, i.e., given a part or all of a file name (perhaps with simple wildcards), find all the files and folders whose names match that from a particular starting device or folder. This was really easy to do with XP and earlier versions of Windows; It seems so hard to do in Vista.
View 5 Replies View Relatedexcept for a few grand issues like Search failing with special/technical searches rather than simple filename search, 85% of this OS is now great. I love it now. And can you guess how many processes show up in TaskManager? 26. ONLY TWENTY SIX. My IE8 starts up lightning fast and swings by all sites except videos, for certain sites w/FlashPlayer & Videos I enable CompatibilityView which aligns those older sites to IE8.
Applications startup as if they were already loaded into Memory, faster than in WinXP. Who knew? It feels like quad-core at 4GHz, seriously. Everything is momentary as if it were loaded from RAM This OS is still a failure, however, versus WinXP. Are you shocked to hear "failure" after my praises, do I contradict myself? No. Because most people are far from my tenacity and just by education, hobbies and profession I alway stune up things to perfection. My cheap car leaves far more expensive models wondering what rocket had just passed them on LIE Expressway. I enjoy tinkering with technology.
It took me 2 weeks (?) to tune up Vista beast to be a polished fast, bug-free beast. It's more convoluted than was tuning WindowsXP. I spent several days in Registry, GroupPolicies, SecPolicies, filesystem digging out and blatantly renaming & moving system files no one is supposed to touch.........
Ive ran all the usual virus and malware checks and all is clear. Ive checked Event Viewer I see an error every 2 minutes or so. Error message with red exclamation is: 'The Windows Search Service has failed to create the SystemIndex search index. Internal error 1, 0x800700b7, Failed to add Gather Application: Windows>.'' After this warning icon shows error message: 'The Windows Search Service is attempting to remove the old catalog.' Next another warning icon shows message:..........
View 7 Replies View RelatedI've got an apparently "broken" search installation. So that I can skip through the normal "click the folder you want to index" type of answers, it's way beyond that. Let me give some background first. This is a new installation of Vista x64 Ultimate on this machine. I just installed it a little over a week ago after I got a blue screen of death that wouldn't allow any type of system restore, etc on the prior install. My prior installation on that machine was a Vista Ultimate x32 bit. The prior installation had the OS on the C: drive and I had moved "My Documents" out of a Windows XP onto the D: drive (D:My DOcuments).
In that prior installation, I left all Music, Videos, documents etc. under the original layout and just pointed the Vista "music", "documents", etc folders to the sub folders. I had no problem indexing on my prior version. I have a Vista 64 bit Ultimate at work as well and IT has no problem indexing even under the default locations..........
The new interface in Office 2007 has a great new look but finding your favorite feature can be a little difficult at first. Microsoft Office Labs offers a helpful utility called Search Commands that brings search to the ribbon. Can’t find a specific feature? Just search for it! ....
View 0 Replies View RelatedI just install IE8 on my laptop, and when it came time to set-up the search engine, I told it to use my current set-up, but I just lost the Live Search, and everytime that I try to install it back I get a weird website called BING, which feels like the Live Search site has somehow being hacked.
View 9 Replies View RelatedRead the article bellow, My own experience with windows desktop search 4 on XP was that of disgust. It sucked up 70 MB of ram with its 4 processes, Its a pile of crap like all vista inspired software.. after living on 2 of my computers for 2 days I removed it .. (I had tried the previous version too and didnt like that one either.)
View 4 Replies View RelatedWhen I highlight (select) my DVD RW Drive (F and do a search for a file that I know is on the disc, it comes up "not found." If I search the folder on the disc which contains the file, it is found. So it appears I'm unable to search the disc as a whole, but instead must select individual folders within the disc to search. Is it possible this is really how search is designed in Vista? I can put the same disc in an XP machine and immediately find the file by searching the disc as a whole.
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