Where is quser.ini in Win 7?

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Fastest thing I have ever seen.

?Hi, nobody.

Jerry Boyle gave you the ultimate solution pretty far down in this thread. Here's my version, which is only slightly different. Like Jerry's it bypasses Windows Search altogether and uses the Old Faithful dir command from DOS days before Directories became Folders.

First, open a Command Prompt window (which many of us old-timers still call a DOS box, even though we know that this Windows emulator is not "true" DOS) by pressing Start, typing cmd.exe and pressing Enter. Then, at a prompt, type: dir C:\quser.ini /s /a

As with any Command in the Command Prompt window, type the command followed by /? to see a mini-Help file showing the switches and parameters available with that command. For the Dir command, type Dir /? and you will see that the /a switch will list ALL files, no matter their Attributes, including Hidden and System files. And the /s switch will list all files in all subfolders in the parent folder tree.

By using dir C:\, you are starting in the Root (\) of Drive C:, and showing ALL files named quser.ini in ALL subfolders on that drive. If that file is ANYWHERE on Drive C:\, it will be listed, with the full pathname of its folder. To search on Drive D:, just start the command with Dir D:\. You can easily expand the search by using wildcards, such as dir q* to find all files starting with "q", no matter the rest of the filename or extension. Or narrow the search by specifying the directory to search in, such as dir "C:\Program Files\Quicken\q*.ini" /s /a

Note that you must enclose the entire pathname in quotes because of the space in "Program Files".

RC

Marvin Kornblau wrote in news:if8q74$p2l$1 @news.eternal-september.org:

That's the search everything program I have been blabbering about ...

At your "insistence" I tried it and it *is* magnificent. And I just love regular expressions [but they aren't for the faint of heart!].

Only problem is Search Everything only works for NTFS file systems. That rules out all my thumb drives (FAT), one of my HDDs (FAT32), my DVDs (UDF) and CDs (CDFS). I couldn't get my original "dir" scheme to work for these either. However the following dir commands (with no "cd" command required) seem to work on all file systems I tried:

dir /b/s c:\quser.ini (system HDD - NTFS format) dir /b/s c:\qb*.ini dir /b/s i:\*.tax (thumb drive - FAT format, with my TurboTax returns) dir /b/s j:\*.jpg (external HDD - FA32 format) dir /b/s e\:*.vob (DVD - UDF format)

With lots of matches you can use "more" to display them a page at a time:

dir /b/s i:\*.qdf | more

Windows Explorer, which is the only one of these methods that can search file *content*, also works with all the file system formats.

My estimation is that Windows Explorer and Search Everywhere make a nice combination and you can forget my "dir" command method unless you feel uncomfortable (as perhaps you should) installing free software on your computer.

Jerry

That's what I have been doing, as in the second step above.

More desktop icons is all I need:-)

It appears that you have, at least, now found the file and I assume that you did your desired edit changes.

I am at a loss as to why you can't locate it via Windows Explorer. As indicated in a previous post, mine works flawlessly.

I haven't seen any indication whether you're using the 32-bit or 64-bit version of Windows 7, however I doubt for this issue it makes any difference. Since this is a Windows issue, not a Quicken issue, may I suggest that you post your search issue over at "microsoft.public.windows.64bit.general". That newsgroup is still active, but not carried my Microsoft any longer. I assess it through server name "news.eternal-september.org". There are many helpful people on that site.

You could also ask in the Microsoft forums, but personally, I much prefer newsgroups.

snipped-for-privacy@nada.com wrote in news: snipped-for-privacy@4ax.com:

The replace the icon for Quicken (I just assume you have that) with a folder and put the icons in there. I agree that fewwer icons is better ...

I put everything I use on the quick launch bar. I have folders on it to keep it organized. On the desktop, I have 7 icons, including "games", "recycle bin", "standby", and "lock desktop".

I also use folders on the Firefox navigation toolbar. so pretty much all of my web links are available there.