[Nesius]

The first thing I did when I got my new laptop was index the "my files" folder so that it could search the contents of wordperfect files. This would be such a great improvement since this isn't possible with my desktop computer on XP (even Google Desktop has never been able to find anywhere near all the documents containing words I am looking for).
UNFORTUNATELY it would seem that certain wordperfect files that I edit during the day get REMOVED from Vista's searching engine. When I do a search of "My Files" after a hard day's work, only about half the files I have modified appear in the search window (annoying since I always back up my day's work on the thumbdrive). Likewise, if I search for words contained in documents (even file names!), Vista WILL NOT SEARCH about half the documents I have modified. The ONLY thing I can figure is that, while Vista is updating the index in the background, it blocks anything that I happen to have open in Wordperfect at the time. This is my theory, since the files that get blocked tend to be ones I have had open for longer durations of time. Does anyone have a recommendation? Is it possible, say, to TELL Vista when to update its index, so that it would incorporate the new material after I've closed Wordperfect? Or could something else be afoot?