Problem in Start--> Search

I've obviously done something - who knows what - with settings in Search. It
used to be that a Search would look in all the sub-folders and files below
the level that I specified. Now it will only look at the folder names (but
not within the folders or subfolders below) at the specified level, so a
search using 'All files and folders' mostly brings up: 'Search is complete.
No results.'
I'm using XP Home 2002.
Any advice on how to fix this would be greatly appreciated, as I now can't
find files in my very hierarchical folder structure, using Search.
Thanks
Paddy

"Paddy" <Paddy@discussions.microsoft.com> wrote in message
newsD99C892-FEA9-40BD-9373-F2EC16D2925C@microsoft.com...
> I've obviously done something - who knows what - with settings in Search.
> It
> used to be that a Search would look in all the sub-folders and files below
> the level that I specified. Now it will only look at the folder names
> (but
> not within the folders or subfolders below) at the specified level, so a
> search using 'All files and folders' mostly brings up: 'Search is
> complete.
> No results.'
> I'm using XP Home 2002.
> Any advice on how to fix this would be greatly appreciated, as I now can't
> find files in my very hierarchical folder structure, using Search.
> Thanks
> Paddy
>

My standard advice on problems with XP's Search is to forget it and use
Agent Ransack (http://www.mythicsoft.com/agentransack/) instead - it's far
superior.

For your actual problem, it sounds like you need to click on Advanced
Options > Search Subfolders. Beyond that, see the above paragraph...

Thanks for both suggestions. I knew that the solution had to be something
simple, but I couldn't work out what had changed. I'll definitely have a
look at your suggested software. Thanks again.

paddy

"Olórin" wrote:

> "Paddy" <Paddy@discussions.microsoft.com> wrote in message
> newsD99C892-FEA9-40BD-9373-F2EC16D2925C@microsoft.com...
> > I've obviously done something - who knows what - with settings in Search.
> > It
> > used to be that a Search would look in all the sub-folders and files below
> > the level that I specified. Now it will only look at the folder names
> > (but
> > not within the folders or subfolders below) at the specified level, so a
> > search using 'All files and folders' mostly brings up: 'Search is
> > complete.
> > No results.'
> > I'm using XP Home 2002.
> > Any advice on how to fix this would be greatly appreciated, as I now can't
> > find files in my very hierarchical folder structure, using Search.
> > Thanks
> > Paddy
> >
>
> My standard advice on problems with XP's Search is to forget it and use
> Agent Ransack (http://www.mythicsoft.com/agentransack/) instead - it's far
> superior.
>
> For your actual problem, it sounds like you need to click on Advanced
> Options > Search Subfolders. Beyond that, see the above paragraph...
>
>
>