query about Vista search

For anyone who might recognize me, it turns out that all those horrifi
problems I had with Vista a couple of months ago weren't due to Vista
HP finally, finally, finally, after already one ship-back, replaced m
motherboard and hard drive. Now that she's not in a defective swamp
Vista is working
Somewhat
I use Thunderbird because Vista mail still limits me to 29 addreses i
my address book, always deleting the last one and adding the latest
That is way dumb, even dumber than I for not scaling the learning curv
of Outlook

Is there a way, please say yes, to get Vista's desktop search to inde
my Thunderbird emails

Shame on Microsoft for making me ask

--
terrypcarter

The auto complete list for windows mail is not your address book. In Vista
that is now called 'Contacts'. If you add your contacts to the contacts
folder they will not get deleted and WM will still look them up even if they
are not in the list of 29 auto-complete addresses. While there may be good
reasons for using Thunderbird, this isn't one of them. Don't blame Microsoft
for your lack of understanding. WM and the Contacts folder are a giant step
in the right direction as far as I'm concerned. No more cryptic files that
you can't find anything in without the supporting software. Just MHO.

As for indexing, I don't use Thunderbird, but you should be able to right
click the drive that the messages are stored in and tick 'index this drive
for faster searching'. May not help if the messages are stored in a
(cryptic) file like the .pst file for outlook.

Gary H.

"terrypcarter" <> wrote in message
news:...
>
> For anyone who might recognize me, it turns out that all those horrific
> problems I had with Vista a couple of months ago weren't due to Vista.
> HP finally, finally, finally, after already one ship-back, replaced my
> motherboard and hard drive. Now that she's not in a defective swamp,
> Vista is working.
> Somewhat.
> I use Thunderbird because Vista mail still limits me to 29 addreses in
> my address book, always deleting the last one and adding the latest.
> That is way dumb, even dumber than I for not scaling the learning curve
> of Outlook.
>
> Is there a way, please say yes, to get Vista's desktop search to index
> my Thunderbird emails?
>
> Shame on Microsoft for making me ask.
>
>
> --
> terrypcarter

Thanks.
Does that mean I had a lack of understanding both before and after
Vista SP1? I admit that I'm not the sharpest tool in the shed.
Could I have been using all of my address book/contacts with Windows
Mail before SP1 and thus had no reason to switch to Thunderbird, which
has taken a lot of work (considering the fact that I've gone round and
round with multiple system recoveries, with all the backups and
transfers of files that entails, and finally, finally, finally, got
major hardware replacements from HP)?
Did a lack of understanding on my part cause me to wrongly criticize
Microsoft for the address book hassle?
When I queried back then, all the answers I got said forget about it if
I want more than the most recent 29 contacts to come up in auto-fill.
Won't do it.
If I misunderstood, I apologize for claiming there was a lack in
Windows Mail. And I hope all of those folks who advised me will
apologize, too.


--
terrypcarter

terrypcarter wrote:
> Thanks.
> Does that mean I had a lack of understanding both before and after
> Vista SP1? I admit that I'm not the sharpest tool in the shed.
> Could I have been using all of my address book/contacts with Windows
> Mail before SP1 and thus had no reason to switch to Thunderbird, which
> has taken a lot of work (considering the fact that I've gone round and
> round with multiple system recoveries, with all the backups and
> transfers of files that entails, and finally, finally, finally, got
> major hardware replacements from HP)?
> Did a lack of understanding on my part cause me to wrongly criticize
> Microsoft for the address book hassle?
> When I queried back then, all the answers I got said forget about it if
> I want more than the most recent 29 contacts to come up in auto-fill.
> Won't do it.
> If I misunderstood, I apologize for claiming there was a lack in
> Windows Mail. And I hope all of those folks who advised me will
> apologize, too.
>
>
No, Microsoft are responsible for a lot of email trouble. They couldn't
decide which of about 3 candidates to pick, instead of leaving "Outlook
Express" alone they put colors in it but took out useful things, then
they decided the colored outlook express (Live Mail Desktop or whatever
it was) would be the new client and suggested people get it, but it
wasn't finished so they mucked about with it until it wouldn't work at
all for some people, and then they messed about with Hotmail at the same
time so nobody knew which was broken from one day to the next and then
was about the time I downloaded Thunderbird and it has worked ever since
- and also looks and works in a similar way (Much like Outlook Express)
on Linux too.

Actually, the use of contacts to find email did work pre SP1. It was
confusing to people because it didn't do that until after you hit the send
button and if it found the address, it just went to the outbox and didn't
show you the email address. SP1 made it find the addy before hitting the
send button. I have had no issues with WM since getting it set up properly
and doing a bit of experimenting to see how it works. If you hit the To:
button you will see a list of all contacts to pick from same as Outlook.
Never use OE so I can't compare anything to it. Also never used XP. My last
OS was win2k. Vista is different and while there are some aggravating
things, I find it stable and fast. You can find many tutorials on Vista
here: http://www.vistax64.com/tutorials/ Even though it says x64, most also
apply to 32 bit.

Take care & Have Fun!!

Gary H.


"Charlie Tame" <> wrote in message
news:%...
> terrypcarter wrote:
>> Thanks.
>> Does that mean I had a lack of understanding both before and after
>> Vista SP1? I admit that I'm not the sharpest tool in the shed.
>> Could I have been using all of my address book/contacts with Windows
>> Mail before SP1 and thus had no reason to switch to Thunderbird, which
>> has taken a lot of work (considering the fact that I've gone round and
>> round with multiple system recoveries, with all the backups and
>> transfers of files that entails, and finally, finally, finally, got
>> major hardware replacements from HP)?
>> Did a lack of understanding on my part cause me to wrongly criticize
>> Microsoft for the address book hassle? When I queried back then, all the
>> answers I got said forget about it if
>> I want more than the most recent 29 contacts to come up in auto-fill.
>> Won't do it.
>> If I misunderstood, I apologize for claiming there was a lack in
>> Windows Mail. And I hope all of those folks who advised me will
>> apologize, too.
>>
>>
> No, Microsoft are responsible for a lot of email trouble. They couldn't
> decide which of about 3 candidates to pick, instead of leaving "Outlook
> Express" alone they put colors in it but took out useful things, then they
> decided the colored outlook express (Live Mail Desktop or whatever it was)
> would be the new client and suggested people get it, but it wasn't
> finished so they mucked about with it until it wouldn't work at all for
> some people, and then they messed about with Hotmail at the same time so
> nobody knew which was broken from one day to the next and then was about
> the time I downloaded Thunderbird and it has worked ever since - and also
> looks and works in a similar way (Much like Outlook Express) on Linux too.
>

"terrypcarter" <> wrote in message
news:...
>
> Thanks.
> Does that mean I had a lack of understanding both before and after
> Vista SP1? I admit that I'm not the sharpest tool in the shed.
> Could I have been using all of my address book/contacts with Windows
> Mail before SP1 and thus had no reason to switch to Thunderbird, which
> has taken a lot of work (considering the fact that I've gone round and
> round with multiple system recoveries, with all the backups and
> transfers of files that entails, and finally, finally, finally, got
> major hardware replacements from HP)?
> Did a lack of understanding on my part cause me to wrongly criticize
> Microsoft for the address book hassle?
> When I queried back then, all the answers I got said forget about it if
> I want more than the most recent 29 contacts to come up in auto-fill.
> Won't do it.
> If I misunderstood, I apologize for claiming there was a lack in
> Windows Mail. And I hope all of those folks who advised me will
> apologize, too.


You could have used your whole Contacts list by clicking To:, but
AutoComplete is limited to the last 29.

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Frank Saunders MS-MVP IE,OE/WM
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terrypcarter;738084 Wrote:
> For anyone who might recognize me, it turns out that all those horrifi
> problems I had with Vista a couple of months ago weren't due to Vista
> HP finally, finally, finally, after already one ship-back, replaced m
> motherboard and hard drive. Now that she's not in a defective swamp
> Vista is working
> Somewhat
> I use Thunderbird because Vista mail still limits me to 29 addreses i
> my address book, always deleting the last one and adding the latest
> That is way dumb, even dumber than I for not scaling the learning curv
> of Outlook
>
> Is there a way, please say yes, to get Vista's desktop search to inde
> my Thunderbird emails
>
> Shame on Microsoft for making me ask

Look here - 'Windows Live Gallery
(http://gallery.live.com/default.aspx?pl=6

You might find a Search plugin IFilter that will add the ability t
search Thunderbird..

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