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Even punctuation has to match exactly.įinally, the text you enter should be unique enough to assume it only exists in the file you’re looking for if you search for, say, Microsoft, Windows will find so many files that the search will be pointless. (But there’s a workaround-see Section 1.8.7.) Furthermore, this kind of search works only if you can remember an exact word or phrase in the missing document. It’s extremely slow, since Windows has to read every single file, which it does only slightly faster than you could.
The “A word or phrase in the file” option searches for words inside your files, regardless of their names. Or maybe you just can’t remember what you called something.
Maybe a marauding toddler pressed the keys, inadvertently renaming your doctoral thesis “xggrjpO#$5%////.” Maybe, in a Saturday afternoon organizing binge, your spouse helpfully changed the name of your “ATM Instructions” document to “Cash Machine Info,” without realizing that it was a help file for Adobe Type Manager. Sooner or later, it happens to everyone: A file’s name doesn’t match what’s inside it. Click Next until you see the one you want, and then click OK.įinally, if you do decide to tolerate Microsoft’s animation attempts, don’t miss the “Do a trick” link that appears when you click the animated character.Ī word or phrase in the file. You’ll find that Microsoft has provided not just one, but several provocative little characters that can occupy the bottom of your Search panel-a wizard, some yuppie woman in a flying car, and a surfboard kid whose face appears to be made of a banana. On the other hand, if this kind of thing seems to make computers less intimidating for you, click “Choose a different animated character” instead. (You must still sit through one final animation while it saunters away.) If you’d just as soon not have little Rover eyeing you with his little anthropomorphic 3-D eyes while you do your searching, it’s easy enough to get rid of him.Įither click “Turn off animated character” on the current menu, or click directly on the animated character to open up the panel illustrated here.Ĭlick “Turn off the animated character” to get rid of the dog. Fortunately, the Search program works just as well without the dog as with it. Microsoft is at it again, adding cutesy cartoon characters to its software.
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