Searching for word or phrase - Windows 7

[Nanobot]

I've never really got into Vista much and never did like the interface for searching for files so need some advice on figuring out the Search in Windows 7.
In XP, I was able to open up a Search and if I wanted to find any file that contained a particular word, XP Search did have the "A word or phrase in the file:" field I could use and away it went. I could even target any particular folder I wanted rather than the whole drive.
So, as one example, if I wanted to find an inf driver file that contained "Canon" somewhere on my C: drive, would I have to set the indexing options to index the whole of the C: drive including hidden or system files, would it then work?
Again, using the same example, in XP, if I knew there was a file containing "Canon" in the Inf folder, I could right click on the Inf folder and start a word or phrase search from there, is that the same in Windows 7 if I set Indexing options to index the Inf folder and then simply using the Search as normal?
Similarly - if I wanted to seach for a particular value in an .ini file too.
Any advice gladly received!

 

[miniyazz]

IIRC it categorises files by type and searches them accordingly. So by default it will search the contents and filename of *.txt files, for example, but only the filename of *.exe files. You can adjust the list, so you could tell it to automatically search contents of .inf files, if it doesn't already, but it'll take longer to search until it's got them indexed. Can't remember where the settings are though - folder options maybe?