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You know the file is somewhere. Windows can locate it in a twinkling, no doubt. You click Start, Search, type a word or two, click Search, and wait. And wait.

A banana and half a sports section later, you get the news: ‘Search is complete. There are no results to display. But that can’t be! Since you know the file arrived as an e-mail attachment, you open Outlook, click Find, type your term, click Find Now, and see ‘No items found’. Oops! Outlook can’t search attachments.

I know your frustration. My boss recently gave me a simple task: to find the original version of a Scott Spanbauer Internet Tips column about wireless network security from a few years ago. That’s all he remembered about it—no file name, no date, nothing.


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