Comb
Comb verb - To look through (as a place) carefully or thoroughly in an effort to find or discover something.
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- When Egosoft rereleased the older titles in the X-Universe series on Steam in the late 2000s, they went back through each and every game with a fine-toothed comb to fix any compatibility issues with current OS's (the first game in the series was originally coded for Windows 95/98).
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