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Re: Error: procedure entry point in cygwin1.dll
Jack Tanner wrote:
Harold L Hunt II wrote:
It works fine in Windows 2000, but they broke it horribly in Windows
XP when they "extended" it to ignore certain directories and types of
files. You have to jump through all sorts of hoops and enable the
indexing service in order to get it to search all files in XP. So,
the results of the utility cannot be trusted in XP.
What's wrong with Start, Search, All files and folders, Look in Local
Hard Drives? I just tested it on XP SP1, it worked well. Doesn't it get
around what you describe if you click "All files and folders" instead of
"Pictures, music, or video" or "Documents"?
Nope, doesn't work, at least not in the cases that I use the most, but
might not be entirely relevant to the discussion at hand. The case I am
referring to is when you are searching for text in a file, which is a
little different than what we are talking about here. In that case, you
have to configure the indexing service specially and turn it on in order
to be able to search through .c and .h files (and all the other files a
programmer would use) without having Visual Studio .NET installed (which
I think installs handlers that allow some of these file types to be
searched.
The overall point to be taken home here is that you can't trust the
search facility in XP unless you are prepared to ask people if they have
done things in a very specific way *and* you are prepared to trust their
response to those questions. It ends up being a huge waste of time when
you could instead run a command-line search and be done with it.
Harold