Searching Network drive in WinXP

On a user's laptop, he goes out to a network drive to Search for a particular
file type, by clicking on the Start Button, going to Find Files or folders
then entering the file spec (*.dwg) and chooses a particular Network drive.

The results are returned instantaneously. There are no files in the returned
results. The odd thing is that I can find files of that type on the drive.

The other noteworthy aspect is that I can search other network drives or his
local drives and find files of that type. The search utility takes an
appropriate amount of time.

Any ideas?

Thank you,

Rich

Olórin
Wed Apr 16 05:21:49 PDT 2008

Rich W. wrote:
> On a user's laptop, he goes out to a network drive to Search for a
> particular file type, by clicking on the Start Button, going to Find
> Files or folders then entering the file spec (*.dwg) and chooses a
> particular Network drive.
>
> The results are returned instantaneously. There are no files in the
> returned results. The odd thing is that I can find files of that type
> on the drive.
>
> The other noteworthy aspect is that I can search other network drives
> or his local drives and find files of that type. The search utility
> takes an appropriate amount of time.
>
> Any ideas?
>
> Thank you,
>
> Rich

If you're happy poking around in the registry (usual caveats apply), try
changing

HKLM\SYSTEM\CurrentControlSet\Control\ContentIndex\FilterFilesWithUnknownExtensions

on his laptop from 0 to 1.

If you're not comfortable doing that, or would like to use a much better
search utility, install AgentRansack:

http://www.mythicsoft.com/agentransack

as used by many folk in these groups (myself included).