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Windows Search 4.0 84% faster

Matt Hester has just posted up a blog about performance and stability improvements in Windows Search 4.0 – 84% improvement of desktop search in Vista sound good to you?

Windows search 84% faster

You can learn more about Windows Search at http://www.microsoft.com/windows/products/winfamily/desktopsearch/default.mspx

and if you just want to go straight to the download center use the following links:

Windows Vista

Windows XP

Rob

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Published Wednesday, November 19, 2008 4:24 PM by robmar

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Wednesday, November 19, 2008 11:43 AM by Windows Search 4.0 84% faster | MS Tech News

# Windows Search 4.0 84% faster | MS Tech News

Wednesday, November 19, 2008 1:15 PM by RW

# re: Windows Search 4.0 84% faster

Are the search datasets comparable?  I.e. why is Vista mostlyso much slower than XP when comparing the graphs?

Wednesday, November 19, 2008 2:57 PM by robmar

# re: Windows Search 4.0 84% faster

RW - I am not sure probably best to conatct Matt who posted the original post

rob

Thursday, November 20, 2008 3:28 AM by boe

# re: Windows Search 4.0 84% faster

Windows search is about the only MS update that I disable as it can turn a perfectly good PC running XP into something that crawls - like a Vista machine.

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