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Title: How To Set search For All Files In Winxp Post by: Alex on March 14, 2007, 12:29:07 AM When you perform a search for a file in Windows XP. The default setting is for XP to ONLY return files in the "Search Results" pane - when they are registered file types to a program on your PC.
In other words if you are looking for a file that is NOT registered with an application on your PC, it will not be found using the default search settings. However, you can turn off the default by a quick Tweak of the registry! Open the Registry editor (type regedit from the Run command) and navigate to: HKEY LOCAL MACHINE\ SYSTEM\ CurrentControlSet\ Control\ ContentIndex Double-Click the value named: FilterFilesWithUnknownExtensions ..and change the value from 0 to 1 Exit the registry editor and reboot! |