Microsoft releases public beta of Windows Search 4.0

re: Microsoft releases public beta of Windows Search 4.0

Chris — Sun, 30 Mar 2008 05:55:44 GMT

quicboy, I'm guessing you're using XP if you have WDS intalled, but if you compare OneView to the Windows Vista search results windows you'll see they are very similar.

(Thanks for reminding me about that screenshot though, I couldn't find it the other day!)

re: Microsoft releases public beta of Windows Search 4.0

quikboy — Sun, 30 Mar 2008 04:46:36 GMT

I would have been really more impressed if WDS actually looked like Live "OneView"

www.flickr.com/.../1881989117

I've had WDS for a long time, and didn't really notice too much of a difference.

re: Microsoft releases public beta of Windows Search 4.0

Chris — Sat, 29 Mar 2008 22:15:10 GMT

RVSh, yes it should index these files, I think its because i've moved most of the special folders (Documents/Music etc) to a different drive. The checkbox to index is still ticked though...

re: Microsoft releases public beta of Windows Search 4.0

RVSh — Sat, 29 Mar 2008 04:49:54 GMT

I'm pretty sure that the product team made it sure that music files are indexed and can be searched. If it doesn't work, you can tell them - there is a forum on forums.microsoft.com/.../ShowForum.aspx.

re: Microsoft releases public beta of Windows Search 4.0

quikboy — Fri, 28 Mar 2008 09:20:32 GMT

@Khristopher : You really ought to try Windows Desktop Search. Google Desktop has to be one of the most worst things to come out of Google, and there's a better solution. WDS does a pretty good job for me. You should give it a try:

www.microsoft.com/.../windowsdesktopsearch.mspx

re: Microsoft releases public beta of Windows Search 4.0

Khristopher — Fri, 28 Mar 2008 08:25:48 GMT

I was just about to uninstall Google Desktop because well it's really crappy at finding results I want it to, even though I've specified it to look in specific folders! It still doesn't find the files.

Going to try this out. Hopefully it's better, and faster from what it used to be!

re: Microsoft releases public beta of Windows Search 4.0

sticky359 — Fri, 28 Mar 2008 08:24:41 GMT

The new Windows Search has been really nice to me. I have been reluctant to install instant search programs on any of my XP machines because of performance problems, but after using this new beta version I have been very impressed with the performance. I do wish that it would allow you to search through non indexed folders like Vista search does.

re: Microsoft releases public beta of Windows Search 4.0

Meteor — Fri, 28 Mar 2008 07:27:53 GMT

很强悍