Searching for .dat files (XP)

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I apologise if this is in the wrong area

Has anyone come across a problem when searching the contents of folders via explorer

We have a folder that contains .dat files. We have noticed that if we use the search contents of a file option the .dat files are not displayed in the results. This is causing considerable difficulty as users think that files are missing when they are actually there.

Is this a known fault or could we be doing something wrong when searching.

Thanks for any advice

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By default, only files from a fixed list of known file types will be searched. To cause search to look through all files you need to set the following registry key:

[HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINESYSTEMCurrentControlSetControlContentIndex]
"FilterFilesWithUnknownExtensions"=dword:00000001

See Microsoft Knowledge Base Article 309173 for more information.

StuartR

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Thankyou Stuart

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