Vista Desktop Search Annoyance
section: windows, for your questions: KezNews forum, 5.9.2007
I thought people might find this fix interesting because it annoyed the hell out of me when I first started using Vista. Thanks to pacpis for this news.
In the XP days, I was a huge Windows Desktop Search (WDS) fan, and like many WDS fans Vista search wasn't that exciting because of new features but rather, it gave visibility to mainstream windows users that desktop search would change the way they computer.
When I used WDS I typically indexed my whole C:\ and I carried that practice over to Vista's indexing service. That's when I started having issues. I wanted to search all my content on the machine, but when I would search for any files in the Start Menu, I would never get any results returned on a search unless they were applications. For example, if I was to search for an excel file, it would not return in the Start Menu even though it was located in "Documents" -- it was very frustrating.
As it turns outs, the quick fix was to change the start menu settings so that the search bar is set to "search entire index" instead of the default "search this user's files." The problem arises due to the user changing the "indexed locations" to include all of the "C:" when the Start Menu is set to "search this user's files." This is a known bug and will be fixed in Vista SP1.
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Comments(5)
i was wondering why vista's desk search was bothering you, i've been enabling "search
entire index" since day 1 with vista.
disable the indexing service and remove all indexes from the indexing service control
panel applet. most educated computer users know where their files are. windows search for
myself is wasted resources and a "who cares" among vista's feature in my book. if
anything, i use dtsearch, which is far superior to any windows search version in
existence.
so how uneducated are you, that you need something better than windows search?
if you have worked with code or scripts before, you would know that windows search is
worth spit on that regard while dtsearch can search within documents and databases for
content as well, most file formats that contain text of any type. dtsearch is the premiere
search tool, nothing even comes close to comparison, absolutely superior to windows search
in every way.
but you said educated people know ehere their files are. besides windows search is free,
did you really expect it to be better than that dtsearch you speak of? why don't you just
get linux if windows offends you so much?
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By Smith Agent Smith on 06.09.2007 - 04:09