Windows XP Search Tips 2

In Windows XP, press “Win+F” or “F3” to open the local file search window, press “Win+Ctrl+F” to open the computer and user search. Although there are many third-party tools that provide powerful file search capabilities, the majority of friends who use the system's own search. The author summarizes some of the techniques related to it and the more common troubleshooting methods (assuming Windows is installed on the C drive, friends who install other drive letters, please adjust accordingly).

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 within files is not perfect. We can make the search results more in the following ways. Full: Run the “Regedit” command to open the Registry Editor and navigate to “HKEY_ CURRENT_USER\\Software\\Microsoft\\Windows\\CurrentVersion\\Explorer”, and in the right window will be CaseSensitive, IncludeSubFolders, SearchHidden, SearchSlowFiles, SearchSystemDirs (if not Then create a new value of type REG_DWORD and change it to 1, which maximizes the search directory. Next, locate the "HKEY_CLASSES_ ROOT" branch. Here is the file type supported by the search within the control file. We can add several more common file types to create a new search support for the htm format file. Yes: Create a new item named “HTM” in the branch, and create a new one in the HTM item called “PersistentHandler” and change its default value to “5e941d80- bf96-11cd-b579- 08002b30bfeb}” .

2. Let Windows XP search faster

The above describes how to make search results more tricks, the price is slow search speed, if you want to make the search faster, then you can "HKEY_CLASSES_ROOT" branch The files that are not needed are similar to delete. We open the search window, click “change preferences → use the production indexing service & rdquo; turn it on, so when our system is idle, the system will automatically index and maintain the local file to improve the search speed .