You can require a specific word by adding a + sign in front of it, or prohibit a word by adding a - sign. All other words will be treated as "optional". Try to avoid using common words such as "then" or "while", unless part of a phrase.

For example, to search for messages that must have the word "timer", must not contain "pronto" and may contain "clock", use: +timer -pronto clock.

Searching for "philips pronto" will only match that specific phrase, with words in that order. You can require or prohibit a phrase by placing a + or - in front of it, for example +"onkyo chad".

Searching a forum by "thread subject only" is the absolute fastest method, but you'll only be able to find terms located in thread titles. Searching by "entire thread" is the next fastest method, but you may obtain more accurate (or at least easier to locate) results by searching through individual messages. It is not recommended that you select more than 6 months of posts to search through when using this last method, due to speed.

When searching by individual message, you can optionally limit results to posts written by a particular author. You may enter in the author's name, part name or six-character forum ID number.

If you would like to return all messages by an author, do not enter any search terms.

Words (but not phrases) have automatic wildcards added to the beginning and end. This means that earn will also match learning.

If you would like to disable automatic wildcards on a single word, place it in quotes, for example "touch" will not match theatertouch.

You may also add a manual wildcard anywhere in terms or phrases with a *, for example rm-av3*t will match both rm-av3000t and rm-av3100t.

With a phrase, "marantz rc5000" will not match marantz rc5000i. To search for both terms, add a manual wildcard, as in "marantz rc5000*".

It makes no difference whether you enter infrared or InFraReD as a search term.

You can match items such as or B&O, but try to avoid symbols unless absolutely necessary.

Keep the number of individual search terms to a minimum to speed up searching. Remember that it can also take quite a bit longer to search all forums at once, or all messages "since the dawn of time" due to the sheer volume of data.

A maximum of 7,500 results will be shown 50 per page, in order of best match. You can also re-sort results by date, subject or author. Your keywords will be highlighted in matching threads.

+"prontoedit *2*" +invalid pronto.ini
must contain prontoedit 2, prontoedit 2.0 or prontoedit v2.0, must also contain invalid and may contain pronto.ini.