Announcing the Windows Search 4.0 Preview

re: Announcing the Windows Search 4.0 Preview

Brandon LeBlanc — Wed, 03 Sep 2008 11:45:26 GMT

damiswinblog, please head on over to the Windows Search Forums on MSDN. That is a much better place to post about your issue and getting some help.

http://forums.microsoft.com/MSDN/ShowForum.aspx?ForumID=847&SiteID=1

Thanks,

Brandon

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damiswinblog — Wed, 03 Sep 2008 09:39:05 GMT

windows search with msg filter installed on windows server 2003 is not working if i searched a msg file with Vista client! can someone help me?

re: Announcing the Windows Search 4.0 Preview

Brandon LeBlanc — Mon, 28 Jul 2008 06:39:27 GMT

To folks having issues with "no matches found" please make sure your system has been able to fully index your files. Also: for the files you are looking for - make sure they are in a location included in your search scope.

goitalone and Rootje, I apologize you're having not so good experiences with Windows Search 4.0. I've actually seen the opposite happen with my PCs in terms of CPU usage and disk activity. Windows Search 4.0 has been tested and designed to be more efficient for PCs. Make sure you're running the final release versions of Windows Search 4.0 mentioned in this blog post:

http://windowsvistablog.com/blogs/windowsexperience/archive/2008/06/03/windows-search-4-0-released-to-web.aspx

Thanks,

Brandon

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goitalone — Sat, 26 Jul 2008 08:07:30 GMT

I uninstalled it and my CPU and hard drive are NOT MAXED OUT and constantly RUNNING and searching like they were before the this terrible, horrible update...another failure for MS.

I have this sickening feeling Windows 7 will be even worse.

Only thing I can actually say I like about Vista (so far) is that it hasn't ever gotten tot he point of needing to reinstall it.

I had to reinstall XP what seemed like every 1-3 months.

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goitalone — Sat, 26 Jul 2008 07:34:22 GMT

I installed this update from windows update and ever since I did that, my PC is acting like it was before SP1. Hard drive constantly searching for DAYS ON END!! It make my audio in games and music and movies GLITCH and SKIP and it sounds like BBDBDBDDDDBDBDBDBDBDBDBDBDBDBBBD <that!!

TERRIBLE!! I am getting ready to uninstall it and see it my Vista install hasn't been ruined by this stupid update..I had a bad feeling to begin with about it.

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Rootje — Fri, 25 Jul 2008 02:33:30 GMT

hmz, my cpu is getting very high since the update, im gonna uninstall it.

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Rootje — Thu, 24 Jul 2008 13:21:52 GMT

I have the same thing as Benjy. I get also 'no matches found' . Can anybody tell?

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Benjy — Wed, 23 Jul 2008 19:42:40 GMT

Ive just downloaded this, and now it cannot find a single file, it finds programns fine, but even after typing the exact name of a song or photo, it says "no matches found"

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eggonbeagle — Tue, 08 Jul 2008 18:15:39 GMT

what's the deal?

Why is this so difficult? I simply want to search 'all files and folders' in my documents. Then I simply want to search "a word or phrase in the file".

I don't know what results i'm getting; I have to go into depth with the search options.. It so NOT CLEAR. SO NOT INTUITIVE.

I can't get my work done anymore--what a waste of time and money.. its so discouraging.

and the quick keys in all the office 2007 menus... I want to use the keystrokes..but there's no hint/ guides.. just graphics.. i'm supposed to interpret these graphics and their heiroglyphic meanings.

how do you search for a single word in a document?

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kshenry4 — Thu, 01 May 2008 01:56:12 GMT

I have never understood why WDS built in support for network locations was removed. We commonly setup our workstations so that all user documents are on file servers (folder redirection, etc.). So the search built into Vista has nothing of any value to find.

Will version 4 natively support network locations?

Will it still require the UNC/Fat addin?

As I am running 64bit Vista, this addin is unavailble, I basically cannot use WDS at all.

re: Announcing the Windows Search 4.0 Preview

bladehawk — Tue, 29 Apr 2008 17:01:58 GMT

Will this work with the Microsoft plugin that allows users to add network shares to the indexed locations? Thanks in advance.

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dreamis@live — Mon, 21 Apr 2008 11:36:54 GMT

Hi again, Lin!

I found that OneNote 2007 is simply NOT recognizing WDS 4 as a setup of Windows Desktop Search! The Install Instant Search button is grayed out on the Other page of the Options dialog box in Microsoft Office OneNote. So there's NO WAY for me to enable the instant search in OneNote having WDS 4 installed since OneNote is waiting for WDS 3.

Here's the screenshot I made for you.

http://img231.imageshack.us/img231/914/wdsnotenablinginonenoteos1.png

Is it possible to force OneNote recognize the new version of Windows Desktop Search or there unspecified incompatibility between the two applications?

I believe I haven't seen any incompatibilities between Windows Desktop Search 4.0 and Microsoft Office OneNote 2007 mentioned in any article. Did I miss something?

Could recreating the EnableLogging registry parameter help here like it is recommended by Daniel Escapa at here http://blogs.msdn.com/descapa/archive/2006/09/16/756826.aspx ?

Thank you in advance.

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dreamis@live — Mon, 21 Apr 2008 11:15:30 GMT

[quote]Hi Dreams@Live,

What operating system are you running on? And can you briefly describe the steps you took to upgrade to 4.0? And do you still repro this, or is it gone after you let OneNote sitting idle for a little bit?[/quote]

Hi Lin,

Thank you for your fast response and pardon me for not responding to your that long!

1. This is 5.1.2600 Service Pack 2 with all the latest updates installed.

2. I've just upgraded the existing WDS 3.0 which I had installed with my Office 2007 setup to WDS 4. That's it.

3. Yes, the issue is reproduced and I still can't search through all the notes/notebooks.

It only finds the string that I am searching for within the currently opened note. That is I have to walk though all the 100+ of notes and initiate search on every of them if I want to find something!

By the way, I have Microsoft Office Onenote item presented in the list of indexed items on the Indexing Options dialog box.

I am curious, if downgrading to WDS is the only way to fix that or there is something I missed that I had to configure before the search started work?

Thank you!

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ChiMan — Mon, 21 Apr 2008 05:45:17 GMT

I run a small biz looking at fast growth and need my software to work reliably. I'm running XP Pro SP2 and Office 2007 SP1. I've been using the Instant Search feature of WDS 3.01 in Outlook but have had issues with old folder names showing up under "In Folder" when those folders had in fact been renamed long ago (seems I need to rebuild the Index after changing the folder structure in any way... and even that still may not be getting all of them to reset), and the long lag time when deleting a message from the results pane concerns me because I could then click on and delete a message by mistake when the item is finally removed and the list shifts on me. I'm wondering if these are improved or fixed in 4.0 and, if so, the sixty-four-dollar question is how safe it is to install this "Preview" in an environment where there's no room for error in system stability or in reliable search results. Note that it's a basic stand-alone installation of WDS -- a peer-to-peer Windows LAN but using WDS to only search the local hard drive with the default settings. Thanks!

Windows Search 4.0 beta : détails et installation...

Site d'informations sur Windows Vista et Windows Server 2008 — Fri, 11 Apr 2008 15:35:00 GMT

La beta de Windows Search 4.0 est disponible Tous les détails sont ici : http://support.microsoft.com/Default.aspx?kbid=940157