Windows XP Search Tips Two

Press "Win+f" or "F3" in Windows XP to open the local File Search window and press "Win+ctrl+f" to turn on computer and user searches. Although there are a number of third-party tools to provide a powerful file search function, but the use of the system to bring the search of the majority of friends. The author summarizes some of its techniques and the more common troubleshooting methods (assuming that Windows installed in C disk, installed in the other letter of the friend please make a corresponding adjustment).

1. Make Windows XP search results more accurate

Windows XP does not search for files in certain directories by default, and its support for search in files is not perfect, and we can make the results of the search more comprehensive by running the Regedit command to open Registry Editor and navigate to the HKEY_ Current_user\ Software\microsoft\windows\currentversion\explorer ", in the right window, casesensitive, Includesubfolders, SearchHidden, Searchslowfiles, Searchsystemdirs (if not new, whose type is REG_DWORD) is modified to 1 to maximize the search directory. Next, navigate to the "Hkey_classes_ ROOT" branch, here is the file type that is supported by the search in the control file, and we can add several more common file types to create new search support in the HTM format file by creating a new item named "HTM" in the branch. Then create a new one named "PersistentHandler" in the HTM item and modify its default value to "{5e941d80-bf96-11cd-b579-08002b30bfeb}".

2. Get Windows XP to search faster

The above describes how to make search results more skills, the price is slow search speed, if you want to make the search faster, then the "HKEY_CLASSES_ROOT" branch of the unwanted files can be similar to delete. We open the Search window, click "Change preferences → use Indexing Service" to turn it on, so that when our system is idle, the system will automatically index and maintain the native files to improve the search speed.