Windows Search 4.0 Released to Web

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re: Windows Search 4.0 Released to Web

rsbrux — Thu, 09 Jul 2009 12:12:12 GMT

My experience with Windows Search so far has been more frustrating than helpful. For example, I would like to search a Windows 2008 Server for all files named "web.config" containing a specific text. Even when I select "Always search for file names only" and disabled "Find partial matches" in Search Options, I still get a long list of files with names other than "web.config". The expanded search pane doesn't provide any way of simultaneously specifying complementary criteria such as file name, extension or expression sought. The only parameter I can specify is the file name, which (see above) is not taken seriously anyway. The selection of the categories "All", "E-mail", "Document", "Picture", "Music" and "Other" at the top of the screen may be helpful to a casual computer user, but is not so for a serve operator. In Windows Search under XP, I am at least permitted to regress to the earlier "stupid" search form, after waiting for Windows Search to produce nothing of interest. Windows 2008 aseems to offer no alternative.

re: Windows Search 4.0 Released to Web

rsbrux — Thu, 09 Jul 2009 12:09:03 GMT

This is totally frustrating and underwhelming. It is difficult if not impossible to specify exact search parameters or to know how Search is using the parameters supplied. For example, I want to search a Windows 2008 Server for all files named "web.config" containing a specific text. Even when I select "Always search for file names only" and disabled "Find partial matches" in Search Options, I still get a long list of files with names other than "web.config". The expanded search pane doesn't provide any way of simultaneously specifying complementary criteria such as file name, extension or expression sought. The only parameter I can specify is the file name, which (see above) is not taken seriously anyway. The selection of the categories "All", "E-mail", "Document", "Picture", "Music" and "Other" at the top of the screen may be helpful to a casual computer user, but is not very useful for a server operator. In Windows Search under XP, I am at least permitted to regress to the earlier "stupid" search form, after waiting for Windows Search to produce nothing of interest. Under Windows 2008, there seems to be no alternative.

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Windows Search 4.0 kommt als Windows-Update

beqiraj.net — Wed, 08 Oct 2008 22:00:47 GMT

Windows Search 4.0 kommt als Windows-Update

re: Windows Search 4.0 Released to Web

dmassary — Thu, 02 Oct 2008 16:11:05 GMT

PLEASE HELP! I love outlook instant search but i do no want desktop search. Windows search 4.0 is a complete package of desktop and instant....I DONT WANT DESKTOP SEARCH. Any way around this?

re: Windows Search 4.0 Released to Web

TimO — Mon, 01 Sep 2008 10:46:43 GMT

Hi - please can feed this back to the Windows Search Team?

Search 4 is not integrated well visually in Windows XP (esp. Classic mode). Almost all our computers at work run XP in classic mode (I use High Color Plum), and Search 4 looks completely out of place.

e.g. Set XP to Classic style, Plum color scheme. Right click the search icon in the task bar, choose Windows Search Options and have a look at the cr*ppy drive icon with a halo effect round it (and it’s not even the proper XP drive icon, but the Vista icon).

Seeing as 3/4 of all Windows machines are still running XP the Search/XP combo will be around for a long time. It would be great if you guys can properly integrate Search 4 in XP. (BTW - have a look at Firefox 3m which does a fantastic job of visual integration depending on the platform / style on which it runs - XP (classic or luna)/Vista/OS X/ Linux).

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The Windows Experience Blog — Tue, 26 Aug 2008 20:42:28 GMT

Last week was an exciting week for Windows and blogging. Senior Vice Presidents Steven Sinofsky and Jon

Reminder - Windows Search 4 coming to WU soon...

Microsoft Teams & Staff — Sun, 10 Aug 2008 11:46:50 GMT

Hi everyone – Thought I’d drop a line and remind you that we’re planning to release Windows Search 4

La Búsqueda en Windows ha cambiado ¿para bien?

Tecnozona v1.9.5 — Thu, 07 Aug 2008 03:49:32 GMT

(Por El Microsaurio) La búsqueda de archivos en Windows ha cambiado… ¿para bien? ¿Para trabajar más cómodo?¿Quién estará más cómodo?¿El atacante?En junio pasado un equipo de programadores de Microsoft entregó al público Windows Search 4.0,

re: Windows Search 4.0 Released to Web

DavidArno — Thu, 31 Jul 2008 13:20:24 GMT

Windows Search 4 is all very nice if you want to search for word docs in your documents folder for example, but for a developer's point of view, it is useless. It only searches recognised file types, and there seems absolutely no way at all to make it search ALL files. This feature renders it a joke of a search tool.

Oh and why oh why does it still ask me "Did you find what you were searching for?" when no results were found in non-indexed locations?

Can we please have the old XP search tool back? That actually worked and was easy to tweak to make it search all files.

And Microsoft wonders why Vista is a lame duck product?

re: Windows Search 4.0 Released to Web

GlennMaples — Tue, 29 Jul 2008 00:40:52 GMT

Brandon --

Please pass along to your "good buds" on the windows search team that Window search 4.0 is a real disappointment.

1) Setting advanced options like what folders to include is erased with restarts of the machine. Oops.

2) Setting a particular location for the index (say i: where I; is a removable drive works initially, however if i: is removed or inaccessablie BSOD. (XP)

3) And I am still not convinced that it finds all files. Except for these "minor" issues, a phenomenal job of developing and testing!!!

If this had been a "real" release it would one thing but this was basically a bug release.

4) I would ask about the fuzzy search for related documents using similarity calculations, but I would settle for minimal feature set that really works.

Best

gleenn.maples@nospam.gmail.com

re: Windows Search 4.0 Released to Web

marcuslearner — Sun, 27 Jul 2008 01:07:41 GMT

How exactly do you uninstall Windows Desktop Search 4 if it's...

A. Not showing up in Add or Remove Programs

B. Does not create an uninstall folder in C:\Windows

This is really annoying. I really dislike the new search and it feels almost impossible to uninstall.

Windows Search 4.0 -- 升级你的WindowsXP桌面搜索

CB's Blog — Thu, 24 Jul 2008 07:41:45 GMT

如果是XP，并且用Windows Desktop Search，那么，可以从这里下载升级包，升级到<a href="http://windowsvis

Windows Search 4.0 kommt als Windows-Update

beqiraj.net — Sat, 19 Jul 2008 11:12:14 GMT

Windows Search 4.0 kommt als Windows-Update