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May 08

Windows XP Search

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Using Windows XP to search for some text within files and it’s not working? It may be that the text is within a “non-common” file type – it would appear that XP only searches a specific set of file extensions. Which is typically shoddy of Microsoft.

Thankfully there is a workaround.

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