On 22-4-2010 21:54, Darren New wrote:
> andrel wrote:
>> Ah ok. And how do I do that? I'll find out next week after some 
>> deadlines.
> 
> http://articles.techrepublic.com.com/5100-10878_11-6163793.html
> 
> GIYF, once you have a basic idea of what the answer looks like. :-)
> 
> In particular, peek at Figure G.
> 
> If that doesn't help (and you might have to tell it to reindex stuff), 
> then there's something out there somewhere that provides a "this is 
> really a text file" interface for an arbitrary list of extensions.
> 
> http://www.bench3.com/2009/06/customize-search-feature-in-windows.html
> explains that a bit more, showing you where you'll see it.  See if that 
> helps. And again, remember that unless you wait for the rebuild of the 
> index, it won't necessarily show up right away.
> 
Although this is for vista, I get the idea.

Basically what happens is that while I still think a file is a sequence 
of bytes my OS suddenly has started thinking about the contents and 
meaning of my files. I wasn't expecting that, so I was dumbfounded that 
the utilities that used to work suddenly didn't behave as before. They 
probably have advertised this increase in user friendliness extensively 
and I have not paid attention. Conclusion: it is all my fault.

BTW is there a switch to tell the system that it can keep the PnP, the 
USB support and the filesystems but otherwise stop trying to 'help' me 
and behave like a simple windows 95 machine?

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