Windows XP has a stupendously aggravating behavior when first installed when it comes to searching files.
For some reason, out of the box Windows XP only searches files that match a certain set of file extensions. While for
many people that set is enough, it can drive you crazy to do a search for a file that you know exists based on the
contents in the file, and get no results.
If you've ever been bit by this shortcoming in Windows, there is a way to turn off the filtering "feature" using the Windows GUI. But we're DownloadSquadders, and we want it to be even easier! So download this .reg file from Chris Sells, a very well-known Windows developer, and run it on your system. Voila - file searching works as you would expect it would.
