Am not on a XP right now, but I think one has to tell Search to look into
hidden files.

Some Place in your 'Start/Search/All files and folders.../*.dbx', there
should be an Advanced Options to select.

Let me know.

Thanks,
Ken

"John Brown" wrote in message
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| Any thoughts on this...was at a mate's XP pc yesterday..we looked for dbx
| files on his hard drive via Start/Search/All files and folders.../*.dbx.
| ...whilst this found some old dbx files...the current ones it didn't
reveal.
| He only has one hard drive - drive C so first looked there then looked in
My
| Computer to be sure, and have Show hidden files and folders tricked in
| Folder Options.
| Did eventually find them via Maintenance/Store folder...but intrigued as
to
| why they didn't show in Search?
| Thanks.
|
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