Date: Tue, 12 May 1998 02:07:16 -0000
From: John Halbig <john@garage.com>
Subject: Tidbit - Irritating Windows Find

Keyword: Advocacy, Windows Daymares

This tidbit is from: 

Guy Chapman

Over the months and years we've heard dozens if not hundreds of faults, 
irritations, bugs and other stuff with Windoze 95/NT, so it hardly seems 
worth adding yet another.

Hell, yes it does!

How often when you go looking for a file about Electric Widgets do you 
want the search utility to find all the files whose name includes 
Electric OR Widget? My answer: None. Never. Not at all, not in the least, 
not even slightly.

But in Windoze that's precisely what you get. Press the handy F3 button 
(what? can't remember F3=Find? Shame on you! Of course Ctrl+F can't 
possibly work from the desktop - always use the "standard" search key, 
F3!) and ask for Electric Widgets - and get a list of files called 
"plastic widgets", "electric gadgets" and so on. When you want a file 
where you can remember half the name this is a major annoyance.

And there is absolutely no way past this. Enclose the name in quotes and 
it won't be found unless it's the whole filename. Your only option is to 
connect to the drive with a Mac and use a proper Find File program :-)