Searching doesn't work for .java, .sql, and other text file formats

[carpeliam]

When I use the windows search function and search for all files that include a certain word/phrase, it searches through HTML files, TXT files, etc, but does not search through other formats like SQL and java. I really want to search for text in these files! (And in other formats too.) How do I enable searching on all text file formats?

Liam Morley
lmorley@wpi.edu
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[linney]

See if any of these are helpful?


Using the "A Word or Phrase in the File" Search Criterion May Not Work

http://support.microsoft.com/default.aspx?scid=kb;EN-US;Q309173

http://support.microsoft.com/default.aspx?scid=kb;en-us;309447

Navigate to

http://www.dougknox.com/

and find this file and fix xp_persisthandler.vbs - Enable XP's "Search" to find text in files. It is reached via Win XP Fixes/ Win XP Search Problems/ Can't find files containing text.


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