I have a folder, c:\projects\, added to Windows Index. I know the indexing is working because I search for stuff in this folder all the time and the results come up very fast, and I've never noticed any accuracy problem until now. (I have had to tweak Indexing options to expand which file types have their contents indexed rather than just the file name, etc, but after that Search has worked pretty well for me).

I've encountered a problem while trying to search for references to a particular IP address subnet. I'm trying to find all references to IP's with the pattern "192.168.220.xxx" (AKA, the 192.168.220.0/24, AKA 192.168.220.0/255.255.255.0 IP/netmask).

Within Windows Explorer:

• c:\projects**.* is indexed
• c:\projects\work\project1\network_list.txt contains several "192.168.220.xxx" IP's
• Indexing status says all items are indexed (>193,000 items).
• When I try to search for partial IP match, there are no search results.
  • Tried searching for: 192.168.220, 192.168, 192.168.220., 192.168.220., 192.168.220.?, 192.168.220.??, 192.168.220.???, 192.168., 192.168..
  • Also tried variants of all the above surrounded with double quotes.
• All the searches returned 0 results.

Within MS Outlook 2007:

• My mailbox, and all my offline .pst's are indexed.
• I search in Outlook pretty frequently, so I'm pretty sure indexed searches work across inbox and all .pst's.
• Indexing status in Outlook says all items are indexed.
• I also have references to these IP's in email, and I'd like to find all of them.
• Basically same deal as above, can't search for "192.168.220.xxx" IP's.

Any way to fix this?