So…just a quick tease of a post, mostly interesting to half-nerds (those too busy or lame to have solved their Windows [XP?] searching needs).

In Windows (XP Pro [only?]) you can Search for “A word or phrase in the file…:” Well, this don always work. If the file type you’re hoping it will search in are anything other than .txt (some exaggeration here), it won’t look in the file. I do not know why the solution works, but I do know it has worked for some. the following is copied from Windows® XP - Search Problems

Start, Run and entering REGEDIT Navigate to HKEY_CLASSES_ROOT and locating the entry for the file type in question. For example, .txt, .adm, .asp. Expand the branch for that file type, and if the PersistentHandler subkey does not exist, create it. Do this by clicking on the file extension key and going to Edit, New, Key. Name the Key, PersistentHandler. Click on the PersistentHandler sub-key. In Regedit’s right pane, double click on the Default value and enter the following (copy and paste may be your best bet):

{5e941d80-bf96-11cd-b579-08002b30bfeb}

If the PersistentHandler sub-key does exist, do not change the default value. This could have very undesired consequences.

Close Regedit and reboot the computer.

I have had to use this for .py, .js, .manifest, and I didn’t even have a .xul entry in there!