Windows Explorer's feature to find text within a file fails

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Window Explorer has a feature where you can enter in "A word or phrase in the
file" and run a search and it will return back the files containing that
string. I have found, over and over, that this feature usually fails. I was
looking for a substring within a directory and a file with the .vproj
extension contained the string but Explorer just couldn't find it. I tried
numerous time and tweaked the advanced options settings to ensure that it was
searching everywhere and it failed no matter what I did.

..vproj files are text, so it should not have been ignored. I knew this file
contained the string but I wanted to see if any other file also contained the
string. The search process wouldn't even bring up the vproj file that I knew
used the string. I know if did because I opened it and did a "find" on the
opened file and *bing* there it was! (This was to prove that I didn't
mistype the text in the Windows Explorer search feature)

Is this a documented bug with any hope of being fixed soon?

Archived from groups: microsoft.public.windowsxp.general (More info?)

It's a feature. Why would users want to search a vproj file. Does it contain their wedding photos, their email, resume, or assignments. So all users will get is irrelevent hits if vproj files were searched. Likewise it will only search what users can see (no html formatting codes can be found). This is very smart searching, extensible and very configurable (by programmers). It is the web server search software. It can generate abstracts of results, determines relevence rankings, has at least 3 query languages (type in Containing Text field to use a query language), long and short form of a search query and SQL.

So no it is not a documented bug as it is entirly by design.

Stop thinking that windows is designed for programmers' use. It is designed for users to use and as a platform for programmers to write programs to run on.
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"Steve" <Steve@discussions.microsoft.com> wrote in message news:FF42E000-FB58-4C6D-BF59-C552D6838B3F@microsoft.com...
> Window Explorer has a feature where you can enter in "A word or phrase in the
> file" and run a search and it will return back the files containing that
> string. I have found, over and over, that this feature usually fails. I was
> looking for a substring within a directory and a file with the .vproj
> extension contained the string but Explorer just couldn't find it. I tried
> numerous time and tweaked the advanced options settings to ensure that it was
> searching everywhere and it failed no matter what I did.
>
> .vproj files are text, so it should not have been ignored. I knew this file
> contained the string but I wanted to see if any other file also contained the
> string. The search process wouldn't even bring up the vproj file that I knew
> used the string. I know if did because I opened it and did a "find" on the
> opened file and *bing* there it was! (This was to prove that I didn't
> mistype the text in the Windows Explorer search feature)
>
> Is this a documented bug with any hope of being fixed soon?