Windows hard disk search

[Mike Bonner]

If you can narrow down the places to search, you can do this with a shell
command.  You could technically do the whole drive, but it would be way too
slow to be worthwhile, but if you only have to search a small subset of the
drive it shouldn't be too bad.

set the defaultfolder to "c:\where\to\start\looking"
get shell("dir /s filetofind.pref")

So to find all hosts files in the windows tree

set the defaultfolder to "c:\windows"
get shell("dir /s hosts")

which returns parsable info as similar to the following.

 * Volume in drive C has no label.*
* Volume Serial Number is C44E-B22E*
*
*
* Directory of
c:\windows\winsxs\amd64_microsoft-windows-w..nfrastructure-other_31bf3856ad364e35_6.1.7600.16385_none_6079f415110c0210
*
*
*
*06/10/2009  03:00 PM               824 hosts*
*               1 File(s)            824 bytes*
*
*
*     Total Files Listed:*
*               1 File(s)            824 bytes*
*               0 Dir(s)  858,688,282,624 bytes free*


A whole drive search with this method takes way too long.  I also wonder if
there is a registry key that will point you the right direction instead.

On Wed, May 11, 2011 at 3:51 PM, Bob Sneidar <bobs at twft.com> wrote:

> I wouldn't try to search for it if I were you. Just check for the OS and
> conditionally set the path accordingly. If it could be ANYWHERE, than that
> begs the question, what is it and who put it there?
>
> Bob
>
>
> On May 11, 2011, at 2:14 PM, Bill Vlahos wrote:
>
> > I want to modify a prefs file on XP and Windows 7 computers. Since the
> file could be in different places I can't count on knowing the path to it.
> How do I execute a search for the file by name in LC and get the path to it?
> >
> > The file would only be on the user's hard disk not on any mounted servers
> so I want to restrict the search to just the user's drive.
> >
> > Bill Vlahos
> >
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