Disable and Turn Off Windows Vista Search Indexer and Indexing Service
Windows Vista has greatly enhanced its search algorithm where the search process is now not only faster, but users can also easily search for almost all kind of files, documents, pictures, videos, emails and contacts in Outlook 2007, and even commands or application programs’ executables.
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19.9.2007 Microsoft: Lots to turn off in Windows 7
In a blog posting on Friday, Microsoft noted that, with Windows 7, customers will have the option of disabling a number of features of the operating system, should they so choose.
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6.3.2009 Turn on Remote Desktop in Windows Vista
Remote Desktop is disabled by default in Windows Vista, but it’s easy enough to turn it back on. If you need to access your Vista PC from another box, it’s an essential thing to turn on.
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26.1.2007 Microsoft: Turn Pirated Windows Copies into Genuine Products!
Microsoft is providing users with the means to turn their pirated copies of Windows into genuine products. However, the offer is only available for Windows XP, and not for Windows Vista.
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2.10.2007 Microsoft makes a u-turn, Windows 7 testers to get free copy
In a surprise turn around, Microsoft announced today that Windows 7 technical testers will be receiving a free copy of Windows 7 Ultimate.
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30.7.2009 Turn Off or Disable User Account Control (UAC) in Windows Vista
User Account Control (UAC) is a new security feature in Windows Vista that requires all users to log on and run in standard user privileges mode instead of as administrator with full administrative rights, thus prevent unauthorized or accidental changes that could destabilize the computers or allows virus and malware to exploit the system-level privileges provided to the local administrator to attack the network security, compromise computer safety and privacy, and damage files and settings in the network.
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19.12.2006 Are Windows Vista Sales So Bad That Microsoft Needs to Turn to God for a Miracle?
Is Windows Vista, Microsoft’s latest client, underperforming to such an extent that the company needs to turn up the volume of its prayers?
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2.11.2007 As Windows XP Deadline Looms, OEMs Turn To Vista Downgrade Rights
Microsoft (NSDQ:MSFT) may be preparing to discontinue sales of Windows XP, but some OEMs have found a way to circumvent the software giant's June 30 deadline.
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25.4.2008 Microsoft Must Turn To Virtual OS After Vista
Microsoft can't afford five-year gaps in between major operating system releases, Gartner says, and the way around the delays is with modules.
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8.9.2006 Turn any web widget into a Vista Gadget
The Amnesty Generator for Windows is designed to let you convert any embeddable web site widget (including Google Gadgets) into a Vista Sidebar Gadget with very little work.
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6.2.2007 TechEd 2007 Preview: Now It's Developers' Turn to Make Changes
With Windows Vista already a firmly entrenched product in many homes and some businesses, and with Windows Server 2008 cruising toward a final release in the second half of this year, Microsoft may feel it's time for its many partners and developers with an interest in Windows' success to stand and deliver.
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4.6.2007 How to Disable/Turn off Bing Home Page Image
Microsoft new search engine Bing.com is steadily becoming popular and more and more users have started using bing to search.
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3.8.2009 Hack to Turn Off and Disable Windows 7 CD or DVD Writer Burning and Auto Tray Ejection Feature
Windows 7 inherits the capability to burn or write to CD and DVD burner or writer, with additional support to directly burn ISO and IMG disc images with Windows 7 Explorer.
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18.8.2009 Turn a counterfeit copy of WindowsXP into a free Vista license!
Perhaps you have bought a license of WindowsXP Home, Pro or Media Centerd Edition 2005 from your local dealer and afterwards it turned into a counterfeit while trying to validate it through WGA (Windows Genuine Advantage) program.
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29.4.2006 TurnOffLCD - How To Manually Turn Off Notebook or Laptop LCD Screen
Whenever I stop using my laptop but I decide to leave it turned on, I’ll make sure that I turn off the LCD screen.
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22.7.2008 Windows XP Service Pack 3 - Will it turn XP into Vista?
Microsoft is currently cooking the third and last service pack for Windows XP. Released back at the end of 2001, and overhauled in 2004 with the introduction of Service Pack 2, the next refresh for XP is long overdue.
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19.10.2007 How to Turn On and Enable Aero in Windows 7 (Enable Aero Peek)
Windows Aero features in Windows 7 has been greatly enhanced and improved with new features such as Aero Peek. Without Windows Aero Glass Transparency effect, the many premium user interface (UI) goodies and extravaganza visual experience such as windows with translucent glass design and new windows colors in Windows 7 won’t be enjoyed by the system users.
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12.1.2009 Yes, You Can Turn 32-bit Vista into 64-bit Vista
Yes, you can turn the 32-bit SKUs of Windows Vista into the 64-bit editions of the operating system. But it will cost you...
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29.1.2008 Vista SP1, and then Windows 7, Windows 8 and Non-Windows Midori
2008 saw the release of Windows Vista Service Pack 1, Windows XP Service Pack 3 and Windows Server 2008, but Microsoft's journey on the Windows path is far from over.
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5.8.2008 Windows 7 RC Brings Windows XP Mode Beta and Windows Virtual PC Beta
The Release Candidate of Windows 7 will bring with it the first Beta development milestones for Windows XP Mode and Windows Virtual PC.
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29.4.2009 Windows Reactivator 2.0 - Backup & Restore Activation Status of Windows XP with Windows Reactivator
Every time you reinstall your windows XP you need to reactivate it online using your product key & worst if you lost your Windows XP product key.
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3.6.2009 Windows Vista SP1 vs. Windows Vista RTM vs. Windows XP SP2
Feb 26th, 2008. Principled Technologies has released two Microsoft commissioned reports on Windows Vista SP1 performance. In these tests, Principled Technologies measured responsiveness of Windows Vista SP1 vs. Windows Vista RTM vs. Windows XP SP2 when performing a set of common business and home tasks.
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28.2.2008 Windows 7, Windows 8, Windows 9 – 1 Billion and Counting
Is Windows dead? Or, at least, is this the beginning of the end for Microsoft's proprietary operating system?
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15.9.2008 Week in Microsoft: Windows 7, Windows 8, Windows 9
This week in Microsoft, we covered 128-bit support possibly coming to Windows 8 and Windows 9, Windows 7, Windows Mobile 6.5, Bill Gates, Office 2010 Starter, Microsoft MVP status, Windows Live Hotmail, the EU, and Microsoft Security Essentials.
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10.10.2009 Windows Vista Build 5231 and Windows Media Player 11 Leaks!
Windows Vista Build 5231 has leaked to the web. The new build is said to include Windows Media Player 11 included. View the screenshots below! This is a Main branch build that was released on September 12th, 2005 at 8:20PM.
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Windows Vista SP1 and Windows XP SP3: Official Release Dates
A French website, PC Inpact, has posted the official Microsoft product change request forms for Vista SP1 and Windows XP SP3.
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6.2.2008 Download Free Windows Vista and Windows XP SP2 Straight from Microsoft
Via the Internet Explorer Application Compatibility VPC Image. That's right! Microsoft is offering access to free downloads of Windows Vista and Windows XP SP2.
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6.3.2008 Windows Vista SP1 outperforms Windows XP SP2 in file copy
"Its interesting that people seem to think that Vista under performs in every area of the system which is quite an incorrect perception.
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27.5.2008 Windows Fiji Has RTMd as Windows Media Center TV Pack 2008
Microsoft officially confirmed that Windows Fiji has been released to manufacturing.
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18.7.2008 Windows 7 Beta Doesn't Play Nice with Windows Azure Cloud OS Tools
The promise for Windows 7 is that it will deliver an evolution when it will come down to stretching into the Cloud compared to its precursor, Windows Vista.
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16.1.2009Xerox Reignites Interest in Semantic Networking as a Search Tool
The Associated Press this
morning hailed a new Xerox
innovation that aims to take
search engine indexing
capabilities "to the next
level," with a public
unveiling of a semantic
networking tool it plans to
integrate into its FactSpotter
legal document search system.
It's being described as the
next stage in textual indexing
development, and the
culmination of a four-year
project at Xerox's European
research center in Grenoble,
France...
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21.06.2007Can a touch-screen interface turn around Windows?
It's no secret that Windows Vista hasn't seen the warm reception Microsoft had hoped. With Windows 7, the company is placing its bets on a
multi-touch interface -- like the iPhone UI for PCs -- but can it turn things around?..
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28.05.2008Details on proposed search controls
Under the formal rules for "robots.txt," a Web site may refuse indexing of the entire site, specific directories or specific pages.
However, some search engines have interpreted "disallow" to mean that the site cannot be added to the index but could be fetched for use in
various algorithms employed to determine how high a site appears in search results, said Francis Cave, technical project manager for proposed
revisions known as Automated Content Access Protocol.
ACAP proposes to clarify that "disallow" refers to indexing. A separate
"crawl" command would be added to bar the indexing software, or crawler, entirely.
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29.11.2007TomTom turn by turn navigation coming to iPhone
Turn by Turn navigation is finally coming to the iPhone. Announced at Apple's WWDC Tom Tom will be bringing the service to the device. Many have
asked for such a service as the iPhone is the perfect platform for the software and Tom Tom is set to deliver on that front. Also along with Tom Tom
Apple will be allowing users to add other turn by turn type applications. Google maps will now be allowed to be embedded into applications and it
will give you all of the same functionality that the stand alone app has. What developers will come up with is only a guess but it should allow for
many new and more useful applications.
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09.06.2009Google dips toes into 'deep Web' search
Google's ever-active search bots, which scour the Web constantly for new pages, have begun a new, more active phase of their indexing jobs.
In a
blog post
Friday, Jayant Madhavan and Alon Halevy of Google's crawling and indexing team said the company has begun an experiment in which its indexing
software experimentally enters text in Web site forms to see what previously undiscovered pages may appear.
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15.04.20082007 Office System Converter: Microsoft Filter Pack
This download will install and register IFilters with the Windows Indexing Service. These IFilters are used by Microsoft Search products to index the
contents of specific document formats. This Filter Pack includes IFilters for the following formats: .docx, .docm, .pptx, .pptm, .xlsx, .xlsm, .xlsb,
.zip, .one, .vdx, .vsd, .vss, .vst, .vdx, .vsx, and .vtx.
Because Windows Desktop Search (WDS) consumes IFilters from Windows
Indexing Service, the IFilters will be automatically registered and available for use by WDS.
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19.12.2007Windows Desktop Search 3.0 Released!
Microsoft seems to be gone
once again on a release day,
since after Windows Defender,
it's now Windows Desktop
Search's turn to see its
final version become available
to the public. The new version
features a bunch of new
features over its second
version, and much improved
performance, along with faster
indexing and improved file
type support.
Any
older version of Windows
Desktop Search will be
upgraded automatically to
version 3.0, so there's no
need to remove it before
installing it.
Thanks to
-DarkPhoeniX- for the heads
up!
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25.10.2006Microsoft makes a u-turn, Windows 7 testers to get free copy
In a shock turn around, Microsoft announced today that Windows 7 technical testers will be receiving a free copy of Windows 7 Ultimate. In recent
weeks Microsoft has faced angry reactions from bloggers and beta testers when they originally announced the testers "thanks" was the discounted
pre-order offer. Blogger Paul Thurrot claimed: "the painful thing here, for beta testers, is that they've been screwed" which demonstrated the
reaction to the previous announcements.
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30.07.2009Google Desktop 2 Emerges From
Beta
Revamped indexing and search
tool offers features (and
versions) for work and home...
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04.11.2005Google Labs: Turn your email into a Google Doc
Google has released another experimental feature from their Google Labs offerings, that allows you to turn an email into a Google Doc. Quite often
we might have lengthy email conversations that become tougher to manage going through each conversation. With this new lab feature, you can turn a
whole bunch of similar email conversations into a Google Document. You can turn on this new lab feature by going to the Gmail Labs tab under
Settings, select Enable next to Create a document and hit Save Changes at the bottom. Here is a good example below from my own email.
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19.12.2008Two Libraries Join Windows
Live Book Search
Microsoft said Friday that two
new academic libraries have
joined its Windows Live Book
Search program, the University
of California and the
University of Toronto.
Additionally, an indexing
service for in-print book
publishers was announced...
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09.06.2006Preview of new Windows Search adds cross-PC indexing
A typical lexical search engine creates a single, indexed repository of addressable content, which can get pretty cumbersome to search through unless
your name is "Google." Now, Microsoft is shedding a little more light on an alternative...
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29.03.2008YouTorrent relaunches with focus on legal downloads
One of the fastest-growing new BitTorrent sites said late Wednesday that it had relaunched its search engine, indexing nearly six terabytes of legal
content...
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18.07.2008Microsoft's IE 7 Ignores
Windows Setting
Microsoft is defending its
decision to turn on its
ClearType font rendering
technology in
Internet
Explorer 7 even if users
have switched it off
system-wide.
ClearType, which debuted
with Windows XP, is designed
to make text more readable on
LCD screens. By default, it's
disabled in Windows, but
Microsoft's IE 7 team has
decided to enable it for the
browser, even if the user has
not turned on the feature
Windows-wide.
ClearType can be disabled in
IE 7 Beta 2 Preview via the
Tools/Internet
Options/Advanced dialog. To
turn ClearType off, uncheck
the box "Use ClearType"
under the Multimedia section.
Unlike Windows XP, the
upcoming Windows Vista will
enable ClearType by default...
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07.03.2006Nokia launches N-series phones for US and Europe
The new N85 and N79 smartphones for European high-speed mobile networks will be followed by a North American edition of the N96. Each will offer a 5
Mp camera with Zeiss optics, integrated turn-by-turn GPS navigation, and N-Gage gaming...
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27.08.2008Google set to offer free turn-by-turn GPS mobile app
Google announced today that it will be offering a free turn-by-turn directional GPS service for its Android 2.0 mobile devices. According to Gizmodo,
Google is working closely with Apple to deliver this app in the future to the iPhone. Google's GPS navigation will take advantage of Google Maps,
hybrid and Street View images. When Android 2.0 ships in November to consumers, the Google GPS mobile application will offer a fantastic feature list
including traffic data. Traffic data will notify users of accidents and slow traffic on major highways. The cloud map network, which will be
constantly updated, will offer the latest reports on highway traffic flow, using data from department's highway cameras and from cell phones using
Google Maps.
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28.10.2009Google adds 'on demand' indexing to Site Search
Google will enhance its
hosted Site Search service for businesses on Thursday by letting Web publishers trigger a re-indexing of their site whenever
they want.
The new feature gives control to Web publishers over the frequency with which Google refreshes its index of the
site's content, something that until now had been automatically scheduled by Google's system based on internal algorithms.
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13.11.2008BREIN Forces Leaseweb to Close BitTorrent Site
In a setback for Leaseweb, a
Dutch web hosting company, a
court ruled the provider must
shut down the private
BitTorrent site
Everlasting.nu. Additionally,
according to the BREIN press
release, the identity of the
websites owner must also be
divulged.
BREINs
(Dutch for Brain) function is
similar to that of the RIAA or
MPAA when it comes to
enforcing copyrights. Although
initially unsuccessful in
obtaining personal information
in the past, more recently
they have proven effective
against many BitTorrent and
eDonkey2000 indexing sites.
BREIN succeeded in eliminating
ShareConnector, Releases4u,
and claims to have shut down
over 150 other indexing sites.
Typically, BREIN
sends a cease and desist
letter to the alleged
infringer. If the alleged
infringer doesnt cooperate,
BREIN elevates the situation
by asking the web host to
disable the site and provide
the owners personal
information. In this
circumstance, neither party
(Leaseweb and Everlasting)
cooperated, which led to BREIN
initiating legal action.
Unfortunately for Leaseweb and
Everlasting, the judge
presiding over the case was
unsympathetic to their pleas...
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24.06.2007Technorati Looks to Expand
Audience
Blog aggregator Technorati
relaunched its popular site on
Monday, redesigning the site
to make it easier to use while
making changes to the backend
to improve indexing time of
new posts, and improving its
link-counting mechanism...
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25.07.2006A hundred bucks turns a BlackBerry into a Garmin navigator
Garmin announced a new lifetime offer to Research in Motion BlackBerry smartphone owners: its complete turn-by-turn, voice direction service for a
one-time fee of $99.99, for the life of their BlackBerrys...
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