Posted on 12/05/2017 9:16:46 PM PST by dayglored
or you could [*cough*] install Classic Shell... :-)
They’re PDFs. When you say “Adobe files”, I have no idea what that means. There are a lot of different programs that can read and manipulate PDF files, it’s nothing unique to Adobe. In fact, Adobe Acrobat is horridly overpriced bloat-ware that is a total RAM-hog actually has less functionality than a lot of free and low-priced programs. I have no idea why my employer buys that crap.
That’s a just-alright work-around. Adobe’s search engine is much slower, I don’t know why my employer buys that Adobe bloat-ware crap.
Win7 wasn’t biased toward Microsoft products like Win10 is, it would search all file contents. Win10 has the same folder setting but when you tell it to search file contents in the folder settings, it won’t do it. It’s weird, the setting is still there as a Win7 remnant but it’s hard-coded out. I’m finding a lot of settings in Win10 that are like that. You have choices, in theory, but the operating system does whatever the hell it wants to do after you set it. What your laptop does when the lid is closed or opened is another example. In the Power Settings, I set it to “do nothing” but when I open or close the lid, my computer freaks out, everything goes black for 10 seconds, scrambles my desktop icons, and display setting intermittently change (in other words, it changes settings and not the same ones every time).
My motto for Windows 10 is “Everything’s a problem.” In Win7, when I would hook up to a monitor, close the laptop lid, or hook up to Wi-Fi, Win7 would do it right every time and I wouldn’t have to worry about it. In Win10, I always have to search for some setting to correct back to what it was. Using Win10, things are always a problem. It sucks. Microsoft offered Win10 for free as an apology for the crap-fest that Win8 was. I never used Win8 but I harbor serious doubts that Win10 is any kind of improvement. A change to a newer Windows operating system is no longer an upgrade, it’s a downgrade.
One other thing I noticed about Win10: it always wants to open your webcam and microphone to the world. Microsoft also freely admits that they monitor you at random. So in addition to it having utterly crappy functionality and user interface, it’s also spyware.
Windows 10 is spyware in itself. I won’t have it in my house.
And it all comes in one color: blazing white. It’s as bad to look at as it is to use.
I have no idea what any of that is.
Since when does Microsoft make that call? I know people who are running WinXP without problems.
OK.
Acrobat comes installed on Windows 10.
Like I said in my earlier post, I can word search, select, and copy and paste almost all PDFs, but not the Adobe PDFs my lawyer sends me.
The PDF documents that your lawyer sends you probably has editing functions locked-down and password-protected to keep other people from monkeying around with it after it’s sent out. If I was sending out legal documents, I would.
Sorry...
In a nutshell, Microsoft is making it impossible to manage the current software used in businesses (Office 365, including Exchange-Online email server, SharePoint, OneDrive, etc,) SQL Server, and other products from workstations running Windows 7.
The management software needed simply requires that it run on computers running Windows 10 (though in some cases, 8.1 will still work for now.)
Mark
If I have 10 text documents in a folder I can do a word search for all ten at once by searching doing a folder search. If I know that one doc has the word Camaro in it I can search all at once.
I think you are saying that you could do the same with ten PDF docs in a folder...... But only when you used Windows 7....not Windows 10.
I DO KNOW that if a pdf is composed from images that have text in them.....That you cannot do a word search
I used Foxit for PDF reading but Chrome is quick and crude too.
NO ADOBE for pdfs. Too bloated and always updating.
Virtual desktops... No
Video and media streaming... Yes
Scheduling tasks... Yes
Malware removal... Didn’t know it existed
Reclaim lost disk space... Yes
Remote assistance... No
Share files around the house... No
Check for missing files and disk errors ... Yes
Print to PDF... All the time
Record screen activity... No
Totally agree, there’s much better options. And I cannot believe how expensive it is. When I was getting a master’s degree circa 2011, I was doing a lot with PDFs and looked at prices for the full version of Acrobat. That was an eye-opener, prices STARTED at $800, lord knows what it is now. They must have a real market (don’t ask me why) with big companies because I don’t know what regular Joe would shell out that kind of money when there’s better options in the $40 range (or free if you want to just read PDFs and do a few very basic functions like 98% of us).
Yep. The PDFs that I’m using are part number catalogs (I’ve got about 50 of them). When I’d put the part number into the search window of the Win7 folder, every manual with that part number would pop up in the search. I’d open up the manual that popped up, search on the part number inside, and I’d have my info. The whole thing took seconds. With the very same manuals, Win10 won’t do that, even when I get into the settings and tell it to search file contents. Win10 will only do it with Word, Excel, and other Microsoft products, it has a built-in bias now. What a crock.
When I use the ctrl-shift-F search in Adobe (because my company stupidly only allows that to be used), it takes 1-2 minutes to search the same parts catalogs. I don’t know why it’s so slow.
In Win7, the process was fast and easy. In Win10, it’s always a problem.
I just changed this computer from win7 to windows 10. I have not installed any PDF reader. No Adobe and no Foxit.
I downloaded 3 PDFs into a folder. I can do a folder search. The kind you like. Your problem must be that your computer defines all PDFs as Adobe documents that must be opened by Adobe Reader. Your pdf docs all have an Adobe icon.
My pdfs have a capital E icon to get me to use Edge browser to open them. Edge might be the default opener. I use Chrome to open PDFs and will install Foxit when I have to
IOW currently all PDFs on my computer are raw. A folder search for key words within the docs...This works in Windows 10
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