czb : Thanks for taking the time to reproduce my problem.

mouser : As my non-contiguous search option was already disabled, I tried enabling it.  The scores for the two items in question didn't change.
Do you think you will be able to look into this for me or is it not high enough on your list of things to do?

New user of FARR.          

When I type mbna the top two entries that come up are :

Name	Score	Location
IrfanView - Thumbnails.lnk	878	C:\Documents and Settings\xxx\StartMenu\Programs\IrfanView
mbna.rfp	862	K:\XXXXXXX\YYYYY

I don't understand how Irfan can beat mbna.rfp. I have tried looking at the scoring options and have come up with:

	IrfanView	mbna.rfp
Search Folders
%MYSTARTMENU%	100
K:\XXXXXXX (Subdirectory depth = -1)		100
Heuristic Scoring
History bonus (both are listed in my history)	200	200
Exact match		100
Leftmost bonus		150
Percentage of Search String		25 (??)
Whitespace Removal	0	0
(The other entries are not explained in the Help file and I can't work out how to use them.)
Pattern Scoring
*.rfp		100
*.lnk	50
Total	350	675

These scores, although obviously only part of the story, are so heavily in favour of mbna.rfp (which is what I want) and yet it comes up second. Please could someone help me understand
i) the other entries in the Heuristic Scoring options
ii) what other tests are affecting the scores.

Thank-you.

(The Help file is badly out of date in many ways - the screen prints are of a previous version and some new features, such as the extra heuristic scoring options, that have been added to the application have not been added to the Help.  This makes it very difficult for a new user such as myself to make the most of what is obviously a very powerful program.)