Why Windows is shit today
Jun. 6th, 2005 02:26 pm![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png){kind=small}
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The "Containing Text" field of the built-in Windows XP search system only works on extensions it recognises[1]. Unless you tell it to search everything, which is an option hidden in the File Indexing service - which doesn't even have to be turned on, but the option has to be set inside it anyway.
I mean, what the fuck.
[1] In theory this is so that the system doesn't waste your time, say, looking through image files for some text. Of course any reasonable person would tell it "don't search these files" rather than "only search these other files". Quite apart from the fact that there are people out there who genuinely want to search through image files for specific characters, it's annoying because apparently ASP and PHP aren't on the list of approved file types. Because whoever would want to look for text inside one of those?
The "Containing Text" field of the built-in Windows XP search system only works on extensions it recognises[1]. Unless you tell it to search everything, which is an option hidden in the File Indexing service - which doesn't even have to be turned on, but the option has to be set inside it anyway.
I mean, what the fuck.
[1] In theory this is so that the system doesn't waste your time, say, looking through image files for some text. Of course any reasonable person would tell it "don't search these files" rather than "only search these other files". Quite apart from the fact that there are people out there who genuinely want to search through image files for specific characters, it's annoying because apparently ASP and PHP aren't on the list of approved file types. Because whoever would want to look for text inside one of those?
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Re: Extensions suck...
Date: 2005-06-06 02:30 pm (UTC)Well its a failing of the GUI as a user interface. Yes they are easy to pick up, but its quite easy to go beyond the bounds of what the UI designers planned for, especially if your an advanced user. I run in a GUI environment here and at home but you can take the command line out of my cold dead fingers. Its just too useful.
You can of course install Cygwin on your machine if you want the command line power of Un*x on Windows.
Re: Extensions suck...
Date: 2005-06-06 02:32 pm (UTC)Re: Extensions suck...
Date: 2005-06-06 02:37 pm (UTC)