you work on windows search???
I hope then my observations about the search on xp & vista will reach
someone in MS...
This is not to insult you guys.. and I know that no one person makes the
decisions...
but please have the following 3 things in mind... and tell someone over
there.
I would love to see all MS products get even better.
1-the fact that if something goes wrong you can no longer uninstall it -
(see unlimited number of web pages that talk about this on Google).. the
integration is too much....
2- the fact that office2007 bugs you to install it when you office on xp,
and if you don't install it on outlook it retains that nagging yellow info
bar (there should be a way to turn that nagging bar off)...
3- Also one more thing.. windows vista should ASK you if you want to turn it
on or off.. having a
GUI button that you can see with ease.. on XP it had that small link that
let you turn indexing on and off..in vista they don't even have the link...
Thank you for listening...
"Dave Wood [MS]" <> wrote in message
news:...
> Yeah, each to his/her own I guess. I work in Windows Search so I'm clearly
> not an impartial observer. But for me, at least, the killer feature is the
> e-mail search - like many people I get way too many mails in a day and I
> often need to look back at e-mails from months or years ago. A non-indexed
> search would be far too slow for this scenario.
>
> Dave
>
>
> "kirk jim" <11@11.11> wrote in message
> news:...
>>> However personally I find having an index invaluable. I have thousands
>>> of e-mails, documents etc. that it just wouldn't be feasible to search
>>> without an index.
>>
>>
>> How do I survive without EVER installing a dreaded indexer on my
>> computer?
>> Having a stupid service scaning all your files all the time is a waste of
>> cpu power,
>> it makes your hard disk thrash all the time... oh I absolutly hate it...
>>
>> Google made one, copernic made one.. and as always MS followed the leader
>> and made their own version of it. Windows desktop search for XP was on of
>> the worse
>> softwares I have EVER come accross. It forced me to FORMAT once because
>> the uninstaller did not work and the restore points before the time of
>> installation had been purged....
>>
>> Now office 2007 when you install it on XP urges you (and is in your face
>> all the time) to install
>> that desktop search.. NEVER AGAIN!
>>
>> I know how to be very organized...
>>
>> I can find things faster than you with your indexer.. there is normal
>> search you know.. you dont have to index in order to search..
>>
>> I have hundreds of thousands of files and I am downloading 24/7 ... no
>> indexer can keep up with me.
>>
>> "Dave Wood [MS]" <> wrote in message
>> news:...
>>> Generally the indexer should keep up with file changes, although after
>>> booting Vista for the first time or making very large changes to your
>>> file layout it may take a while. You can see a little bit more
>>> information about what the indexer is doing by going to the Indexing
>>> Options control panel.
>>>
>>> If you want to disable indexing you can go Start -> type Services, and
>>> in the Services app set the Windows Search service to "Disabled" {you'll
>>> know if you no longer have SearchIndexer.exe running on your machine.
>>>
>>> However personally I find having an index invaluable. I have thousands
>>> of e-mails, documents etc. that it just wouldn't be feasible to search
>>> without an index.
>>>
>>> Dave
>>>
>>> "jdenning" <> wrote in message
>>> news:7250A1D9-FF9E-442F-A6D7-...
>>>> Ok here goes an ignorant question. How do I turn this f?/*!!*ing
>>>> "feature"
>>>> off? It doesn't seem like something that is particularly useful at
>>>> all...
>>>> I've been a computer geek since the late 1960's (yes the 60's). I
>>>> started
>>>> with the IBM 1620 which was the size of my garage and had the power of
>>>> a
>>>> pocket calculator. I went through CDC Compass, Multics, Unix (learned
>>>> from
>>>> Ken Thompson), VRTX, Windows 2.01, etc. and I am worn out trying to
>>>> keep up
>>>> with the "latest" just for the sake of keeping up. If it isn't useful
>>>> I
>>>> don't want to have to deal with it. I have seen more than one new
>>>> feature.
>>>> - Pardon the rant... I just want something to work...
>>>>
>>>> "kirk jim" wrote:
>>>>
>>>>> >The search index may be lagging a little.
>>>>>
>>>>> now imagine what will happen in the near future with 100mb internet
>>>>> connections
>>>>> and files changing from hour to hour....
>>>>>
>>>>> indexing will always be showing incorrect information
>>>>> or it will be working 24/7 just to keep up... slowing down everything
>>>>>
>>>>> thus indexing is a bad idea... I turn it off along with UAC
>>>>>
>>>>>
>>>>> "Puppy Breath" <> wrote in message
>>>>> news:...
>>>>> > The search index may be lagging a little. Try searching for a word
>>>>> > in the
>>>>> > body of the document, or the filename, and see what happens with
>>>>> > that
>>>>> > approach. Don't use the wildcard (*) or .doc. And try doing the
>>>>> > search
>>>>> > right from the Start menu using a word from inside the document or
>>>>> > maybe a
>>>>> > word from the filename. Once that's working, try the other older
>>>>> > method
>>>>> > (*.doc).
>>>>> >
>>>>> >
>>>>> >
>>>>> > "jdenning" <> wrote in message
>>>>> > news:6FCA6891-4113-4762-80E1-...
>>>>> >>I moved a subdirectory within my Documents directory. Now when I do
>>>>> >>a
>>>>> >>search
>>>>> >> for a file type (eg. * doc) the search still picks up an entry for
>>>>> >> the
>>>>> >> old
>>>>> >> file location as well as the new one. If I try to launch Word
>>>>> >> using the
>>>>> >> prior entry I get an error message from Word. I have tried refresh
>>>>> >> and
>>>>> >> even
>>>>> >> rebooted from power off. The search still picks up an entry for
>>>>> >> the old
>>>>> >> files.
>>>>> >
>>>>> >
>>>>>
>>>>>
>>>>>
>>>
>>
>>
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