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I have a windows Xp Sp2 system where the windows explorer search is not able to find the text in xml files. Is there some setting that enable the search in xml files? It finds in text in text / doc files in the same folder.

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Windows Search doesn't really work the way you might expect. It doesn't scan every file for a specific search query, rather it looks through it's index. – Daisetsu May 13 '10 at 20:07
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I know this doesn't directly answer your question, but if you're prepared to install some new software Notepad++ supports searching in files and will search in xml files quite happily.

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AstroGrep should be able to find text within XML, or any other text files.

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I like Search and Replace

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