Another win 7 question...

I don't know how well FileLocator works with speech output, but it's better than Win7 search, and vastly better than Win8 search.

I use the "pro" and "network" versions, but here's the free "lite" one

I have this

which is free and works very well

It depends if they use standard controls or not usually, if not and there are no keyboard shortcuts, then it won't work. I'll have a look later on. Brian

There is no way I can tell screen position, in my world itsjust up and down. So saying the one in the left top corner has no meaning to a blind person.

In XP you can set it to look at all local hard drives and just give it part of the file name. I've tried to find this function in 7, but cannot and search seems to only present a certain number of matches and does it very messily, ie in a tree rather than a list. Brian

On widows 8.1 there is an option to set it to no display for the blind. I have no idea what it does but there may well be a similar option in windows seven.

Many years ago, I wrote HUNT, an improved version of standard DIR, a 16-bit EXE working in MS-DOS and in command prompt windows up to Windows XP. It, TXT PAS EXE ZIP, is in

When I got a Windows 7 64-bit system, in April 2012, it would not natively run HUNT, so I wrote something similar in JavaScript, to run both at a comm and prompt and in an HTA for MSIE. I cannot reasonably explain it here; bu t all relevant files are in

Someone, but possibly not Brian Gaff, might find it useful - but use it at your own risk.

In message , Brian Gaff writes

It seems to be not much realised, but there are a variety of filters/operators you can use to focus the Windows 7 search better. it can filter them on filename, file type, dates (of various types) etc. The filters can be combined.

eg. The 'filename' operator will limit search to filenames. so:

filename: "hetty feather" will search for a file with an exact match for hetty feather

filename: hetty will search for files with the name starting with hetty

or the 'datetaken' filter will search for files with a date taken of whatever date.

eg

datetaken: 14/03/2008 datetaken:2008

If you use them in the start menu search box you just have to type them in. if you do it in the windows explorrer search box, a right clcik will give you clickable option (not sure if that would be useful for you though brian)

details here:

But be aware they are altered completely with Win 8 ...

Win7 file search is s*it, Brian. Download Agent Ransack, it's free and works in the way you expect.

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I might be teaching you to suck eggs here but if you use windows+E for Explorer, then the F3 key gets you to Search. Then whatever you type, it will search all drives on your computer.

If you want to search a particular drive, then Windows+E for explorer, type the first letter of the drive volume label (if you label them "C Drive", "D Drive" etc then it's easy to remember), hit Enter, then F3 to search.

In message , Mike Tomlinson writes

I read that this morning, downloaded the program and it is great, thank you. I'm running XP, but have never been happy with the search facility. Now, I'm delighted :-)

I use FileLocatorPro (the 'big brother' of AR). Long ago I turned off the automatic indexing of files that XP (and presumably other versions of Windows) do - which is what their built-in search utilities use. I can't quite remember if AR and/or FLP will use index info if it's present.

In my case I see no reason to have XP read every file and try to remember salient info from each one; I'd rather have no indexing overhead but search files exhaustively if and when I need to.

Anyway, if you're indexing files, and don't feel there's a need, you turn it off per disk by right-clicking a disk (in eg My Computer, or in a Windows Explorer view of the root directory) and in the General tab, untick "Allow indexing service...". I can't remember how one gets XP to forget all the old index info, but I'm sure googling would tell you.