(Caution: Rant Ahead)

At work I have Office 2007 installed. It’s great, I love it. I love the built in search functionality that lets me quickly search for emails. I love the calendar.

What I really don’t love, is that it makes you install Windows Desktop Search if you want to search your archived emails. 

When you do install Windows Desktop Search (WDS), it takes over the default search functionality for all of Windows.

So, you go from this:
 

To this:

Which is kinda cool for some things - like if you’re searching for a document that references a certain project.

The problem comes when you just want the old dumb style search. 
Say, “example.ini” - I know it’s in the “c:\example\” directory somewhere, but it’s hidden three folders deep in a gigantic folder structure for some old application.  The old style search would clunk along reporting any matches. The new system returns something like this:

Gee, thanks - 312 Results - none of them the one I actually wanted.

Oh, wait - here we go - I fill in the “File Name” bit and hey-presto - I get 6 results.

Give me back the old style search, damnit.

(Yes, I know you can click on the “Click here to use Search Companion” link, but I can’t change the default search handler - at least, not with any option I can find anyway)