On 12/15/2011, Peter Jason posted:
On Wed, 14 Dec 2011 15:04:57 -0800, Gene E. Bloch
On 12/14/2011, Peter Jason posted:
I have Win7 SP1.
In the "Administration Tools" /"Windows Firewall with Advanced
Security" screen, is there a "find" dialogue to locate a keyword?
Peter
Is this a test?
In Firefox one can type in a string in the field at the bottom of the
screen and then press F3 to have every instance of the string
highlighted in green. Your test is to find the equivalent in
Windows7.
No, that's *your* test.
a. For one thing, what do you mean by "find the equivalent in
Windows7"? Do you wish to highlight in green every occurrence of a
given string on the entire hard drive, or just within the Windows 7
code, or even just in the kernel? Or do you actually just mean anywhere
on the current screen in all the open windows?
b. My version of Firefox doesn't work that way. Did you make up the
question without checking?
c. A further test for you is to find other programs that behave the way
you claim FF does. I know of at least one.
I have the *latest* Firefox and the way it works is this. If I have
a web page full of text and I want to find a word on the screen then
<ctrlF> will bring up a field at the bottom of the Firefox screen into
which I type the term. The field turns pink if there is no result,
but any success will highlight in green the word on the page, and if
several then F3 will select each in turn. With programs such as
"AutoPager" this is incredibly useful because several pages are loaded
at once and using F3 saves a lot of checking. I just thought
Windows7 might have a similar useful find facility. For example my
"Administration Tools" /"Windows Firewall with Advanced
Security" is so filled with fine print I often fear I'll miss
something.
You asked this question (quoted from your post):
"In Firefox one can type in a string in the field at the bottom of the
screen and then press F3 to have every instance of the string
highlighted in green. Your test is to find the equivalent in
Windows7."
In the most recent post which I'm now replying to, you describe F3
highlighting each hit *in turn*, which of course is the way my FF, also
the latest version, works. You have not answered your own test
question.
As I said, I know of one program which does *what you initially
described*, which ain't Firefox... Caveat: that program's highlight
color isn't green.
And your above question that I quoted still falls short of
interpretability. You still haven't answered *my* question about what
*your* question means.
Your question would have made sense if you had asked "does [the
administration tools window] have that capability", and my sarcasm,
apparently lost on you, referred to the fact that you could have
answered it for yourself in half a minute - by *looking*.
