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"The following words in your search query were ignored because they are too common words: pattern xp.
You must specify at least one word to search for. Each word must consist of at least 3 characters and must not contain more than 14 characters excluding wildcards."

Can't this be fixed? I had the same problem on another forum and couldn't search for something like 'Windows XP'.

this is a PITA and it seems to be, as you mentioned, a problem that many phpbb templates have. it's been a problem since this forum was launched and probably won't be fixed (it's been brought up a few times with no resolution), but there is a workaround! (as with most things buzz hehe)

just use google to search the forum (and i don't mean LMGTFY). type
into google or pretty much any search engine. you can replace with any other search term you'd like to search the forum for.

the search results are usually superior to those generated by the phpbb search anyway.

Many thanks, I will use that from now on. I know that some other forums offer a Google search at the top of their own search page, because of this strange problem. I supposed the indexing is more difficult if the board software uses words with fewer than four letters or something, but in the world of computers, with so many acronyms, it's a pain as you say.

Pattern XP finds you.

I keep hoping that F1 key (one day) opens up a native/built-in/global "PXP view" (sort of like Renoise has now), instead of opening the not-so-needed-help-section (PDF reading is preferable). Oooh, it makes me all goosebumpy and adorably geeky just thinking about it.