Thanks for your effort but This is only similar to the solution but not the answer... When you use Windows Explorer to find files containing specific text, the results may not include files of all types. In fact, quite a few file types will be omitted. Microsoft created this situation deliberately, to avoid having you find "irrelevant" files and SAS was left out from this list. Updating the Windows Registry will rectify this and allow Windows to search the file types you need. The Search function relies on an internal filter to find words; file types that don't have a defined HKEY_CLASSES_ROOT filter won't be searched. If you find that certain file types don't appear in the search results, you can try assigning the plain-text filter to those types. To have Windows Explorer search files of a certain file extension in this case SAS: launch Regedit from the Start menu's Run dialog. navigate to the key HKEY_CLASSES_ROOT\.??? (where .??? is the extension you want searched). If you don't find a subkey named PersistentHandler, create one. double-click on the value "(Default)" for that subkey and set its data to {5e941d80-bf96-11cd-b579-08002b30bfeb}. Administrator rights are needed to perform this.
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