My windowsXP's search => weird results! (only text search seems to work, not filename)

[PLEASE EXCUSE THIS CROSS POSTING - I THINK I POSTED INTO AN INCORRECT

GROUP EARLIER...!]

My WindowXP almost completely has given up the ability to search.

Help!

It seems to ignore whatever I put into "All or part of the file

name:".

(e.g. "*.*" or "html" or "doc" ...} all yeild no results.

Strangely however if I enter something into the

"A word or phrase in the file:"

(e.g. "the", then I get lots of results, AND they are filtered by

whatever

I have put into the "All or part of the file name:" field

I am using Windows XP Professional SP2, with all the latest patches.

I am also using Internet Explorer v7.

Any suggestions?

Ship

Shiperton Henethe2