Re: Search results problems

Frank Saunders, MS-MVP OE wrote:
> "gary" <garybond@shaw.ca> wrote in message
> news:%m7bf.419518$tl2.400407@pd7tw3no
>
>> Jan Cather wrote:
>>
>>> When I type in the EXACT file name and click "search" it finds "no
>>> results." I have tested it several different ways with different
>>> known file names or topics... searching under file names and/or
>>> words within the files. It is set to search Drive C... shouldn't
>>> that cover everything I've filed on my hard drive?
>>>
>>> Why do I keep getting "no results?"
>>
>> I have that same problem. I switched over to my root administer
>> account and did the search and it worked fine. My regular user
>> account has administer priveleges so I'm on this group looking for
>> the same answer. One thing that I did and I don't know if it caused
>> the problem is that I changed the search application from the little
>> dog to the old style because I liked it better but I kept the little
>> dog style on my root account.
>
>
> As BL said, have you made sure Search is set to search hidden files and
> folders?
>
Yes I tried that

Thanks