I reached my tolerance level using search in windows.
Especially for text strings within files such as UBB files.
I can only assume it does not search text strings within files with double extensions such as config.inc.php.
I have tried changing the indexing settings with little success.

So my question is what is everyone else using?

I gave up long ago.. I simply search every file when nessessary... Generally I find a file that I want to pull apart, then go to town...

So Giz your saying that you don't have something you use to find text strings in files?
So it ends up being hit or miss one by one?

Windows text string search has not worked since Win2K. Win2K was the last version that it actually worked in.

I really wish I had that feature again.

I know I have done everything I can think of to index the files but it just does not work anymore.

Well, i use "find" in notepad/wordpad/nano for searching strings IN files when a file is opened; but for finding a string in a file in general, I don't use anything since windows sucks ...

With the UBB it's easy; just look at the URL and it tells you what file to edit (see ubb/filename)

I understand, that's what I am doing but. I used to be able to search for a string and it would list all files with that string.
I was thinking somebody is using some type of utility that does the same now.

I guess not?

Guess so

My big friends is RegExBuddy.

Basicly a tool to help you create regular expressions. But it also has grep functionality in it.

You can search (and replace) using regular expressions.

http://www.regexbuddy.com

The author also made PowerGrep, a much more powerful grep tool, but it's a lot more expensive. RegExBuddy is real cheap, and a must have if you ever want to play with Regular Expressions.

i still use ts.exe from Norton Utilities at the DOS prompt.

TS-Text Search, Advanced Edition 4.50, (C) Copr 1987-88, Peter Norton

after 20 years, it has it's limitations, you should understand ... like long file names.

I also still use it on occasion Though mine says copyright 1994

Same long filename limitations But I am slowly but surely moving over to regexbuddy to do my searches.