Follow-up: Windows Desktop Search

re: Follow-up: Windows Desktop Search

cirurgia plastica — Sat, 15 Aug 2009 17:38:23 GMT

I installed search 4 on XP after the previous post on search. I did not know about the file name search error (error in my opinion), and then it took longer to get to the old working search companion.

Played with it, it worked quite nice, query language logic etc., but as I am searching file names and content of recently changed file, most of the time, I uninstalled. Now the working search is back.

"Windows is all about supporting diversity".

I hope the old search stays an option to support guys like my who don't mind waiting a few seconds for a basic search to find sub strings in file names. 100% hit.

Also supply enough API's so that third parties can also implement alternative "unwieldy" search GUIs.

O, did I have trouble to find a place to configure, expected it to be available on the search interface. Later I notice yet another new icon cluttering the notification area

re: Follow-up: Windows Desktop Search

hdw — Sat, 14 Mar 2009 21:22:39 GMT

I use wds 4 on xp

the searchindexer process takes a significant amount of memory sometimes.When indexing is complete and when the system is idle the average is about 10,000kb .It sometimes takes a peak values close to 63,000kb(even when indexing is complete).

It never drops below 3,000 kb,even when I am using the system heavily.

Is this normal behavior?

Any way to control this?

re: Follow-up: Windows Desktop Search

Computermensch — Sat, 07 Feb 2009 10:51:52 GMT

Where's the DFS support. Can't use Windows Search (Desktop search) - really can't use Windows 7 libraries without that support.

BTW Needs integration with Search Server as well. At the the core of this last point: One index please in Windows Server System.

re: Follow-up: Windows Desktop Search

Martin Gifford — Wed, 07 Jan 2009 03:14:22 GMT

I would like to get back control of the Search function!

Although I hate the Ribbon in Office, I'd love it for Search and in Windows Explorer!

Search in Vista has so many weird problems e.g. you put in a data CD and do a search for a file and you get "No items match your search" presumably because CDs aren't indexed. So you look for "Advanced Search" to search in non-indexed locations and it's nowhere to be seen!

Also half the the Folder Options in Windows Explorer are ambiguous and don't even work! I like files to be shown in details view or list view (but with sorting categories like file name and date modified). You click "Apply to all folders" or any of the other ambiguous options and experiment with different combinations (e.g. "Remember each folder's view settings" checked and unchecked) and sometimes it seems to work then it doesn't.

Finally, the Pictures folder always comes up with icons instead of details, and the Music folder comes up with all this rubbish about artists name and ratings that is a total disaster area if you actually want to find something.

Bottom line: Give me more control please! You have no right to presume what I want.

re: Follow-up: Windows Desktop Search

Mantvydas — Tue, 18 Nov 2008 02:16:05 GMT

The Start Menu search in Windows Search 4 behaves very strangely...

I have a folder in My Documents which is called Budgets, inside it there are many other folders like Budgets 2008, Budgets 2009, Budgets Revised and so on.

If I click start and type in searchbox a single word Budgets, I do get returned some deeper folders called like Budgets Revised and others, but I never get the one I want: the overall top folder Budgets. Why?

re: Follow-up: Windows Desktop Search

mystere — Mon, 03 Nov 2008 21:18:30 GMT

@Fanboy

You obviously don't undestand the use case. It's not a matter of "easy", it's a matter of conscious action versus subconscious action. I glance at my gadgets all the time subconsciously without distracting me from my work. Moving my mouse to click a button or pressing a hotkey does distract me from my work, especially if my work is two 30 inch monitors over.

re: Follow-up: Windows Desktop Search

Anonymuos — Mon, 03 Nov 2008 17:20:13 GMT

In Windows 7, search is so well integrated throughout the operating system (even in more apps than Vista), why can't it be implemented for Gpedit.msc/Local Group Policy?

re: Follow-up: Windows Desktop Search

UserOfManyOperatingSystems — Mon, 03 Nov 2008 14:01:02 GMT

@lyesmith:

Russinovich's virtual desktop is fast (I've used it), but it has a major limitation: you can't move windows between desktops. The problem is that in his implementation, each program is bound to a logical windows desktop. Each desktop contains some set of program, and windows are children of programs. A program can only draw a window on its own desktop. So you can't, say, have Firefox open a window on Desktop 1, and then have the same Firefox instance open a window on Desktop 2. This is a critical feature for any virtual desktop, so while Russinovich has made a good effort, it doesn't currently meet real world usage needs.

Even worse, Russinovich's implementation can't be shut down before the computer is shut down, or programs running on other desktops will be stranded on those desktops, with no way to access them.

On Linux and OS X, these operations are performed trivially.

The lack of a *good* virtual desktop implementation is one of the major usability problems with Windows.

re: Follow-up: Windows Desktop Search

WindowsFanboy — Mon, 03 Nov 2008 00:13:37 GMT

@mystere

Starting with the beta and on to the final version, Windows 7 will have the new taskbar with the "peek" button on the right side. This makes it super easy to peek at the gadgets - just drag your mouse into the bottom right of the screen. If you want to interact with one of the gadgets, just click while your mouse is there (it does the same thing as show desktop). It's no harder than moving your eyes to glance at the gadgets when they're on the sidebar.

re: Follow-up: Windows Desktop Search

lyesmith — Sun, 02 Nov 2008 00:13:35 GMT

1,2,3,4

Yes Windows does the same since '98 I think. Snapping is useful when you need to work on multiple document at the same time reading one and editing the other. It is easier the D&D if they are side by side. (ie you don't have to wait 300ms just drop it)

I think the snapping feature is nice and useful. I do like it in every application I use.

I would like to see hot-keys for file management between the snapped windows. I hate when I always have to get the mouse for renaming and copying