Windows 7 Registry Entry to Search All File Contents

If you do a search in Windows 7 you may notice that it didn't find some files that you know contain the search terms you are looking for.
This is due to the What to search setting in Windows Explorer under Folder Options -> Search as pictured below.

If you don't have Always search file names and contents selected Windows will only search the files it has indexed.

You can change the setting using the UI as shown above but you can also set it by changing the following Registry setting (which is useful if you want to programmatically set if for users):

[HKEY_CURRENT_USER\Software\Microsoft\Windows\CurrentVersion\Explorer\Search\PrimaryProperties\UnindexedLocations]

"SearchOnly"=dword:00000000

Originally I tried to change the following key based on Scott Forsyth's solution for Windows XP and Windows Server 2003 but it didn't work for me on Windows 7:

[HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE\SYSTEM\CurrentControlSet\Control\ContentIndex]

"FilterFilesWithUnknownExtensions"=dword:00000001


As a bonus tip, this is how I found where the Windows 7 registry key was.

1. Open Registry Editor
2. Right click the registry hive you suspect the setting to be in (usually either HKEY_CURRENT_USER or HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE) and select Export and save the .reg file (ex: hklm1.reg)
3. Change the setting via normal means.
4. Repeat steps 2 and 3 and save the file with a new name (ex: hklm2.reg).
5. Use a Diff tool such as the one include with Tortoise SVN or Tortoise Git to search for changes.

OSX Crashes More Then Windows

There! I said it!

For the record, all my computer hardware, phones, and tablets have been Apple for years; but I primarily do programming in .NET which means I still need to use Windows.

I'm on my 3rd Macbook Pro since Sept of 2007 and over that time OSX has consistently crashed more then Windows XP and Windows 7. Up until April of this year, I was primarily booting directly into Windows using Bootcamp and only using OSX 5% of the time and even with 5% use it had more complete lock ups!

Since April I've started running OSX 100% of the time and run Windows 7 off the Bootcamp partition using Parallels.

Since making the switch to 100% of the time I'd estimate OSX does a Black Screen of Death on average 3-4 times per month. I had one waiting for me this morning after leaving the computer on over night.

People think I'm making this up, so I plan to start tweeting every time it crashes for a historical record.

Granted I have a ton of software loaded on OSX, I'm running Parallels, and I use a Diamond BVU195 USB Display Adapter for a second monitor, BUT other then Parallels these are all things I did on Windows as well so I feel it's a fair comparison.

I've had Windows get slow, or weird, or need a reboot. But I can't remember the last Blue Screen of Death I've had, I can usually kill enough process where I can shut down the OS gracefully. I can't say the same for OSX.

I don't plan on switching away from my current setup and I'll be installing Lion soon. I just want people to STFU about how stable OSX is versus Windows, because it's simply not true.

Crash Log

• 7/30/2011
• 8/17/2011 (Milestone: first crash of OSX Lion)
• 9/8/2011
• 9/19/2011
• 9/25/2011
• 9/30/2011
• 10/14/2011
• 11/3/2011
• 5/25/2012
• 6/22/2012
• 8/3/2012 (Milestone: first crash of OSX Mountain Lion)
• 8/9/2012
• 8/16/2012
• 8/17/2012
• 8/17/2012 (second time in one day, grrr)
• 8/20/2012
• 8/22/2012
• 10/14/2012
• 10/17/2012

Count the Number of Network Connections in Windows

If you need to count the number of network connections to a certain port start by entering this command into a command prompt:

netstat -a -n

Then find the IP:Port combo you want to count and modify the following command to get the count:

netstat -a -n | find /c "<ip:port>"

Example:

netstat -a -n | find /c "127.0.0.1:1935"

Get the System Uptime for a Windows Machine

From a command prompt type:
net stats srv
Look for the line that says "Statistics since"

More info:
http://support.microsoft.com/kb/555737