Search is a disaster

I didn't mean to encourage the trolls. I'm talking only about Search.

Really, how can I search in a specific subdirectory in Vista? The "Search
In.." field is a drop-down box rather than a combobox. The only way I know
how to do a search in a specific subdirectory is to start at C:\ and wait
for an hour, or else go into a command prompt and search with "dir /s" from
my subdirectory. Of course that's only for filename searches, not content
searches.

What am I missing here? Surely this is a pebkac error ... ? Is Microsoft so
stupid as to eliminate specific-directory searching?

Jon



"MicroFox" <-> wrote in message
news:ezby5t%23GHHA.3304@TK2MSFTNGP05.phx.gbl...

>I have been saying that from the first second I first layed eyes on that
>disaster...
>
> Vista and office and ie7 and wmp11 are all disasters.
>
> Not that I liked ie6... but they could have done so much better for ie7...
>
>
> the ribbon in office2007 is horrible,
> the start menu, search, and windows explorer are totally stupid in vista..
> (many other things too)
> Ie7 toolbars are a big problem for many people
> wmp11 had at least 10 big problems....
>
> 5 years development and millions of dollars for this trash?? YOU GOT TO BE
> KIDDING!!!!
>
>
> "Jon Davis" <jon@REMOVE.ME.PLEASE.jondavis.net> wrote in message
> news:OcyXtj%23GHHA.4580@TK2MSFTNGP05.phx.gbl...

>> Does anyone besides me find Vista's and MS Search for Office 2007's new
>> search functionality an absolute disaster for doing simple searches among
>> all files in a subdirectory based on filename or content?
>>
>> The indexing makes search faster but at what cost? I feel like I'm
>> writing a software program just to get a simple search in a specific
>> directory accomplished.
>>
>> Jon
>>
>>

>
>

What trolls...

I am just agreeing with you that the search is bad and that microsoft is
stupid for making the search like that.

The last good search I have seen, was in windows98.. believe it or not!


"Jon Davis" <jon@REMOVE.ME.PLEASE.jondavis.net> wrote in message
news:F59B50C6-4B7E-4476-93B1-17F8DD1E09AC@microsoft.com...

>I didn't mean to encourage the trolls. I'm talking only about Search.
>
> Really, how can I search in a specific subdirectory in Vista? The "Search
> In.." field is a drop-down box rather than a combobox. The only way I know
> how to do a search in a specific subdirectory is to start at C:\ and wait
> for an hour, or else go into a command prompt and search with "dir /s"
> from my subdirectory. Of course that's only for filename searches, not
> content searches.
>
> What am I missing here? Surely this is a pebkac error ... ? Is Microsoft
> so stupid as to eliminate specific-directory searching?
>
> Jon
>
>
>
> "MicroFox" <-> wrote in message
> news:ezby5t%23GHHA.3304@TK2MSFTNGP05.phx.gbl...

>>I have been saying that from the first second I first layed eyes on that
>>disaster...
>>
>> Vista and office and ie7 and wmp11 are all disasters.
>>
>> Not that I liked ie6... but they could have done so much better for
>> ie7...
>>
>>
>> the ribbon in office2007 is horrible,
>> the start menu, search, and windows explorer are totally stupid in
>> vista.. (many other things too)
>> Ie7 toolbars are a big problem for many people
>> wmp11 had at least 10 big problems....
>>
>> 5 years development and millions of dollars for this trash?? YOU GOT TO
>> BE KIDDING!!!!
>>
>>
>> "Jon Davis" <jon@REMOVE.ME.PLEASE.jondavis.net> wrote in message
>> news:OcyXtj%23GHHA.4580@TK2MSFTNGP05.phx.gbl...

>>> Does anyone besides me find Vista's and MS Search for Office 2007's new
>>> search functionality an absolute disaster for doing simple searches
>>> among all files in a subdirectory based on filename or content?
>>>
>>> The indexing makes search faster but at what cost? I feel like I'm
>>> writing a software program just to get a simple search in a specific
>>> directory accomplished.
>>>
>>> Jon
>>>
>>>

>>
>>

>

> What trolls... I am just agreeing with you that the search is bad and that

> microsoft is stupid for making the search like that.

Vista is a beautiful OS and I'm happy about it for the most part.

I was just confounded by Search.

You're not going to accomplish anything by ranting about the whole OS or
about IE7. Way too broad of feedback for anyone to make use of.

Jon

Oh yeah.. scroll all the way down (I have a lot of network junk in the list)
and choose "Choose search locations..."

I'd found that before but forgot about it.

Still WAY too many mouse clicks and movements to accomplish the job when I
should have been allowed to just tab to the field and type it in without
using a mouse at all.

Jon

"Jon Davis" <jon@REMOVE.ME.PLEASE.jondavis.net> wrote in message
news:F59B50C6-4B7E-4476-93B1-17F8DD1E09AC@microsoft.com...

>I didn't mean to encourage the trolls. I'm talking only about Search.
>
> Really, how can I search in a specific subdirectory in Vista? The "Search
> In.." field is a drop-down box rather than a combobox. The only way I know
> how to do a search in a specific subdirectory is to start at C:\ and wait
> for an hour, or else go into a command prompt and search with "dir /s"
> from my subdirectory. Of course that's only for filename searches, not
> content searches.
>
> What am I missing here? Surely this is a pebkac error ... ? Is Microsoft
> so stupid as to eliminate specific-directory searching?
>
> Jon
>
>
>
> "MicroFox" <-> wrote in message
> news:ezby5t%23GHHA.3304@TK2MSFTNGP05.phx.gbl...

>>I have been saying that from the first second I first layed eyes on that
>>disaster...
>>
>> Vista and office and ie7 and wmp11 are all disasters.
>>
>> Not that I liked ie6... but they could have done so much better for
>> ie7...
>>
>>
>> the ribbon in office2007 is horrible,
>> the start menu, search, and windows explorer are totally stupid in
>> vista.. (many other things too)
>> Ie7 toolbars are a big problem for many people
>> wmp11 had at least 10 big problems....
>>
>> 5 years development and millions of dollars for this trash?? YOU GOT TO
>> BE KIDDING!!!!
>>
>>
>> "Jon Davis" <jon@REMOVE.ME.PLEASE.jondavis.net> wrote in message
>> news:OcyXtj%23GHHA.4580@TK2MSFTNGP05.phx.gbl...

>>> Does anyone besides me find Vista's and MS Search for Office 2007's new
>>> search functionality an absolute disaster for doing simple searches
>>> among all files in a subdirectory based on filename or content?
>>>
>>> The indexing makes search faster but at what cost? I feel like I'm
>>> writing a software program just to get a simple search in a specific
>>> directory accomplished.
>>>
>>> Jon
>>>
>>>

>>
>>

>

Jon

Go to Start/Search. In the Search dialog, select Advanced Search. In the Location drop down, you will see all of the choices there. You can select a drive or a specific folder.

--

Ronnie Vernon
Microsoft MVP
Windows Shell/User



Jon Davis wrote:

> I didn't mean to encourage the trolls. I'm talking only about Search.
>
> Really, how can I search in a specific subdirectory in Vista? The
> "Search In.." field is a drop-down box rather than a combobox. The
> only way I know how to do a search in a specific subdirectory is to
> start at C:\ and wait for an hour, or else go into a command prompt
> and search with "dir /s" from my subdirectory. Of course that's only
> for filename searches, not content searches.
>
> What am I missing here? Surely this is a pebkac error ... ? Is
> Microsoft so stupid as to eliminate specific-directory searching?
>
> Jon
>
>
>
> "MicroFox" <-> wrote in message
> news:ezby5t%23GHHA.3304@TK2MSFTNGP05.phx.gbl...

>> I have been saying that from the first second I first layed eyes on
>> that disaster...
>>
>> Vista and office and ie7 and wmp11 are all disasters.
>>
>> Not that I liked ie6... but they could have done so much better for
>> ie7...
>>
>>
>> the ribbon in office2007 is horrible,
>> the start menu, search, and windows explorer are totally stupid in
>> vista.. (many other things too)
>> Ie7 toolbars are a big problem for many people
>> wmp11 had at least 10 big problems....
>>
>> 5 years development and millions of dollars for this trash?? YOU GOT
>> TO BE KIDDING!!!!
>>
>>
>> "Jon Davis" <jon@REMOVE.ME.PLEASE.jondavis.net> wrote in message
>> news:OcyXtj%23GHHA.4580@TK2MSFTNGP05.phx.gbl...

>>> Does anyone besides me find Vista's and MS Search for Office 2007's
>>> new search functionality an absolute disaster for doing simple
>>> searches among all files in a subdirectory based on filename or
>>> content?
>>>
>>> The indexing makes search faster but at what cost? I feel like I'm
>>> writing a software program just to get a simple search in a specific
>>> directory accomplished.
>>>
>>> Jon

Clearly you did not read my post. I was asking about subdirs, not drives.

I said,

> Really, how can I search in a specific subdirectory in Vista? The
> "Search In.." field is a drop-down box rather than a combobox.

... Said combobox I describe here is the same combobox as what you were
directing me to use. The options in the list (except for the last option,
which I just re-discovered and re-posted about before your post) are
arbitary and only drives or network shares.

Jon

Keystroke to remember:

(after Start menu -> search) ...
[tab] [tab] [space] [tab] [End] [tab]

Gah... better than a command prompt at least...

Jon


"Jon Davis" <jon@REMOVE.ME.PLEASE.jondavis.net> wrote in message
news:F59B50C6-4B7E-4476-93B1-17F8DD1E09AC@microsoft.com...

>I didn't mean to encourage the trolls. I'm talking only about Search.
>
> Really, how can I search in a specific subdirectory in Vista? The "Search
> In.." field is a drop-down box rather than a combobox. The only way I know
> how to do a search in a specific subdirectory is to start at C:\ and wait
> for an hour, or else go into a command prompt and search with "dir /s"
> from my subdirectory. Of course that's only for filename searches, not
> content searches.
>
> What am I missing here? Surely this is a pebkac error ... ? Is Microsoft
> so stupid as to eliminate specific-directory searching?
>
> Jon
>
>
>
> "MicroFox" <-> wrote in message
> news:ezby5t%23GHHA.3304@TK2MSFTNGP05.phx.gbl...

>>I have been saying that from the first second I first layed eyes on that
>>disaster...
>>
>> Vista and office and ie7 and wmp11 are all disasters.
>>
>> Not that I liked ie6... but they could have done so much better for
>> ie7...
>>
>>
>> the ribbon in office2007 is horrible,
>> the start menu, search, and windows explorer are totally stupid in
>> vista.. (many other things too)
>> Ie7 toolbars are a big problem for many people
>> wmp11 had at least 10 big problems....
>>
>> 5 years development and millions of dollars for this trash?? YOU GOT TO
>> BE KIDDING!!!!
>>
>>
>> "Jon Davis" <jon@REMOVE.ME.PLEASE.jondavis.net> wrote in message
>> news:OcyXtj%23GHHA.4580@TK2MSFTNGP05.phx.gbl...

>>> Does anyone besides me find Vista's and MS Search for Office 2007's new
>>> search functionality an absolute disaster for doing simple searches
>>> among all files in a subdirectory based on filename or content?
>>>
>>> The indexing makes search faster but at what cost? I feel like I'm
>>> writing a software program just to get a simple search in a specific
>>> directory accomplished.
>>>
>>> Jon
>>>
>>>

>>
>>

>

GAAAAAAAHHHHHHHHHHHHH!!! D`:<

No semicolon-delimited list support!!? I have to click on Add.. for each
directory?! You've gotta be kidding me!!! ;a jf;s jf;alkds fjasd;fkjad;lskj

That's it, I'm firing up Visual Studio to write a classic search app. I've
had it!!

Jon


"Jon Davis" <jon@REMOVE.ME.PLEASE.jondavis.net> wrote in message
news:58A37D10-A9A6-4BB5-9018-00E8C8602FB6@microsoft.com...

> Keystroke to remember:
>
> (after Start menu -> search) ...
> [tab] [tab] [space] [tab] [End] [tab]
>
> Gah... better than a command prompt at least...
>
> Jon
>
>
> "Jon Davis" <jon@REMOVE.ME.PLEASE.jondavis.net> wrote in message
> news:F59B50C6-4B7E-4476-93B1-17F8DD1E09AC@microsoft.com...

>>I didn't mean to encourage the trolls. I'm talking only about Search.
>>
>> Really, how can I search in a specific subdirectory in Vista? The "Search
>> In.." field is a drop-down box rather than a combobox. The only way I
>> know how to do a search in a specific subdirectory is to start at C:\ and
>> wait for an hour, or else go into a command prompt and search with "dir
>> /s" from my subdirectory. Of course that's only for filename searches,
>> not content searches.
>>
>> What am I missing here? Surely this is a pebkac error ... ? Is Microsoft
>> so stupid as to eliminate specific-directory searching?
>>
>> Jon
>>
>>
>>
>> "MicroFox" <-> wrote in message
>> news:ezby5t%23GHHA.3304@TK2MSFTNGP05.phx.gbl...

>>>I have been saying that from the first second I first layed eyes on that
>>>disaster...
>>>
>>> Vista and office and ie7 and wmp11 are all disasters.
>>>
>>> Not that I liked ie6... but they could have done so much better for
>>> ie7...
>>>
>>>
>>> the ribbon in office2007 is horrible,
>>> the start menu, search, and windows explorer are totally stupid in
>>> vista.. (many other things too)
>>> Ie7 toolbars are a big problem for many people
>>> wmp11 had at least 10 big problems....
>>>
>>> 5 years development and millions of dollars for this trash?? YOU GOT TO
>>> BE KIDDING!!!!
>>>
>>>
>>> "Jon Davis" <jon@REMOVE.ME.PLEASE.jondavis.net> wrote in message
>>> news:OcyXtj%23GHHA.4580@TK2MSFTNGP05.phx.gbl...
>>>> Does anyone besides me find Vista's and MS Search for Office 2007's new
>>>> search functionality an absolute disaster for doing simple searches
>>>> among all files in a subdirectory based on filename or content?
>>>>
>>>> The indexing makes search faster but at what cost? I feel like I'm
>>>> writing a software program just to get a simple search in a specific
>>>> directory accomplished.
>>>>
>>>> Jon
>>>>
>>>>
>>>
>>>

>>

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