THE WELCH COMPANY
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S U M M A R Y
DIARY: March 1, 2005 05:59 PM Tuesday;
Rod Welch
Windows XP search fails for text files.
1...Summary/Objective
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SUBJECTS
Search Text Files Search_all_files.reg Modify Registry to Find Text
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0704 - Summary/Objective
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070501 - Follow up
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0708 - Progress
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070901 - Tried Windows XP search program to find text in an SDS record.
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070903 - On 050119 Gary submitted a copy of a letter to Henry van Eyken
070904 - saying that business metrics have a bad reputation, and causes
070905 - negative attitudes about Communication Metrics before anyone even
070906 - considers the scope and potential application.
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070909 - Gary made this point previously, but there was nothing in the
070910 - Subject Index that enabled making a connection. Tried Windows XP
070911 - search feature, and it reported no hits for...
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070913 - business metrics.
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070916 - Did the same search on c12 and on c13, which both are running
070917 - Windows 2000. They found a lot of hits for business metrics.
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070919 - [On 050303 Morris explained that cygwin runs Linux commands on
070920 - Windows, and there is a generic file find utility he uses on
070921 - his Windows XP computers. ref SDS 1 HT5I
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070924 - [On 050516 new Microsoft search techology released, seems to
070925 - have defects similar to search function in Windows XP.
070926 - ref SDS 2 606J
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070929 - Experimenting further with Windows XP on c14 showed that the search
070930 - program fails to find everything.
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070933 - Research on the Internet at....
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070935 - http://www.pchelplive.com/sections.php?op=viewarticle&artid=146
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070938 - Found....
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070940 - Search fails to find text in files
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070942 - Create this registry file and run it to change the default search
070943 - behavior
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070946 - Search will usually only look for text inside of files with a
070947 - registered filetype association
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070949 - search_all_files.reg
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070952 - Windows Registry Editor Version 5.00
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070956 - [HKEY_CLASSES_ROOT*]
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070959 - @={5e941d80-bf96-11cd-b579-08002b30bfeb}
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070962 - Have been unable to figure out how to apply this guidance with
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