Please help me with problem on SE V PBW

[Ed Kolis]

I think Vista has this option somewhere called "show legacy files" or something... unfortunately I can't remember what exactly it's called or where to get to it...

As for the invalid empire name, that seems really strange... you don't have any sort of punctuation or other funky characters in your empire name, do you? Or is the name really long? You shouldn't have to enter the name of the file; the empire name you enter should be Empire Name Empire Type (e.g. "Phong Confederacy"), but it really shouldn't even matter what you enter there, since it's only used for display on PBW... you could put "Fred Astaire" for all PBW cares

[Dogboy]

I found a fix. You can disable "stupid search" mode (as I
think it should be called) by going to control panel, selecting "Administrative tools", then and "Services". Select "Windows Search" and click "stop". You can also then select "Disabled".

When I did this, it works more like XP's search function, and I was able to use it to find my .emp file (a file that Vista's search function concluded does not exist).