I hate Windows XP’s default search panel. It takes like three clicks to do a simple file name search. There is a registry tweak to “restore” the old search panel. Of course if you don’t like to use the registry you can do it from Tweak UI as well.
TweakUI Instructions
Regedit.exe Instructions
Bye Bye Search Dog!
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1 Anonymous // Jul 10, 2004 at 1:26 pm
Suck is exactly what it does, hard. MS followed the principle, “If it ain’t broke, fix it ’til it is” when they added that stupid dog and different tiers to the search. They should have taken a lesson from Clippy. Thank you for linking to the registry fix. My mileage varied with TweakUI with 98SE so I’m not keen on using it with XP.
2 Scott // Jul 21, 2004 at 6:00 pm
Total Sucks. The content search is faster because it skips files….thus rendering the option useless. You have to change the registry for each file type to get it to work. I hope Microsoft rolled some heads over that decision. I was so fed up I spent a week writing my own search util which I now use at work….as do my co-workers.
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