i've been using windows search 4.0 on my c drive for about a month with no problems. two weeks ago i added my d drive to the indexing and everything was fine until yesterday. when i booted up, windows stared a chkdsk and locked up in the middle of the chkdsk. i noticed chkdsk deleted corrupt attribute records that appeared to be indexing file reocrds. i had to reboot and skip the chkdsk in order to start windows (xp with sp3). i've lost the d:\program files directory and various other folders on the d drive most of which i can recover. however, i cannot get chkdsk to complete and I'm afraid of what else will be deleted if i am able to complete a chkidsk. any suggestions???

leok

After deinstalltion of WS 4.0 with the user account "1" the user account "2" does not work anymore. After a reinstall with the user account "1" the user account "2" works again. After deinstalltion with user account "2" the user account "1" does not work anymore. any ideas how to fix this problem? at the moment WS 4.0 is installed and all account are working, but i want to deinstall it because the tool takes to much resources on windows startup.

by the way i`m using a windows xp home sp3 with local user accounts.

J2-PG

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I am an XP 64 user and have installed Windows Search 4 several times now and I just cannot get it to index emails within an dbx file. Is there some secret setting or is everybody else having the same problem? Either way it is driving me insane because I have a huge email database and must be able to search it.

Can anybody out there either put me straight or recognise the issue and let me know when it will be fixed?

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  John,

  On my XP (32-bit) it did not index my Outlook Express DBX files until I had Outlook Express running.

  
Hi

Sorry - I am not that computer savvy - Just one of many millions of users who want to get on with it so any ideas please - anybody. Perhaps even a specific link??

This may not be a problem with Windows Desktop Search itself, but it is interfering with my ability to use it. Installation went fine, and I am able to search in Outlook. My indexing is complete on the desktop. As I type text into the desktop search box in the system tray, you can see the choices narrowing down as they should. Problem is when I hit the search button (or when I press the green "Search Desktop" button in the "Windows Search Results" box): I get the "Open With" dialog. It says the following:

Choose the program you want to use to open this file:

File: - Windows Search

The "Always use..." box is not enabled and I can find no program that makes sense. (Even if I could, I can't make it always be chosen.)

I suspect this is not really a WDS problem alone because I keep runnning into the "Open With" dialog in disturbing places, for example on mapped network drives. Any help would be appreciated.

I work in an "enterprise" setting and received a replacement computer a few weeks ago. It came preloaded with Windows XP SP2 and the Windows Desktop Search is installed (at least to some degree, I haven't determined how completely at this point.)

Under Windows Explorer, any time that I double-click on a folder in the right pane, Windows Desktop Search automatically opens instead of "Explore" and the right-click menu for folders does, in fact, display Windows Desktop Search as the first choice ("Search...")

How do I get "Explore" back as the default selection for folder double-click action rather than Windows Desktop Search?

At this point, I can't find any service going that should support Windows Desktop Search even if I did want to use it.

When I do double-click a folder, the Windows Search Results window launches with the advisement "Windows Search isn't running..." When I go to the Start => All Programs => Windows Search selection, it just launches another Windows Search Results window to tell me yet again that Windows Search isn't running.

If I check properties on the WindowsSearch.exe file under \Program Files, the version is reported as: 7.0.6001.16503.

Any advice is appreciated.

Thanks


Hi - This came from a MS rep and works:

Open RegEdit (Start > Run > regedit).
Find the following : HKEY_CURRENT_USER\Software\Microsoft\Windows Desktop Search\DS
Double-click on ‘ShowStartSearchBand’ and set the value to ‘0′. Close that and you’re done, the next time you click ‘Search’ in explorer, the old, reliable search companion will appear.

Hi,

i've encountered the problem that the windows search doesn't find any items.
The problem was that the registry key HKEY_CLASSES_ROOT (after a new XP Prof SP3 Slipstream installation) and its subkeys hadn't the right sec ACLs. It's important that SYSTEM has full access and that Users have the right to at least read the keys.

This resolved also other problems concerning the file ext., SQL native driver etc.

KR
Chris

6 month ago we install like 4 Desktop search 4.0 in a departement. After a short period of test we update that number to 20. Now, dont know if it related to this but, sometimes, people work on a network document (other people indexing the network drive in same time) and the document who is already open pass in read only mode.
it's normal ? for indexing windows search need to take control of the document ?

6 month ago we install like 4 Desktop search 4.0 in a departement. After a short period of test we update that number to 20. Now, dont know if it related to this but, sometimes, people work on a network document (other people indexing the network drive in same time) and the document who is already open pass in read only mode.
it's normal ? for indexing windows search need to take control of the document ?

I use Windows XP and installed Outlook 2007 a few months ago. I found the Instant Search capability very useful and had no problems using it. I use MicroSoft Update and am kept bang up-to-date. One week ago I decided to upgrade to IE8. After this was installed Instant Search stopped working. I have spent nearly a week looking for a solution. I even downloaded a Trial version of Office 2007 in the hope this would provide a fix. It hasn't. When I attempt to re-install 4.0 I now get a message that says ""Cannot continue - could not initialise the log file."" I have got a copy of a previously unsuccessful installation logfile - kb940157.log. Not being very technical I do not know how to interpret this log file. The original error message was "Cannot install 4.0 on this machine" I have found this forum after five days of surfing the various Microsoft Support sites. All the other Communities have so far failed to come up with a solution that works for my stand-alone PC. Can someone here please help me. Steve - mymobile566@hotmail.com

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After new security restrictions were put in place, running Windows Search caused the following issues:
* Slowdown of other work on the PC
* Creation of temporary indexing files and directories on C: root
A number of efforts to fix the issue failed, including reducing the types of files being indexed, setting priority to "idle" for searchindexer.exe and other search processes.
The resolution of the issue was to use Windows Control Panel applet Services to set the login for the Windows Search Service to a specific account, rather than use the default login as System.

URL for Windows Desktop Search Forum (http://forums.microsoft.com/MSDN/ShowForum.aspx?ForumID=127&SiteID=1) at top of this article goes nowhere.......

Hi,
For testing purpose i tried applying the some the GPO setting mentioned in the article . It is working fine with windows XP but i dont see the changes reflected in RSOP on windows vista PC.

http://support.microsoft.com/kb/940157

There are seven polices to be enabled as recommened in the site . all seem to be reflecting in Windows XP pc but in Windows vista am able to see only one GPO setting getting reflected. Is this is a normal? Please help

I want to link the Microsoft Desktop Search 3.0 to pass on the search query to our intranet (Sharepoint 3.0, WSS)

What I did:
I added in the group policy the PrimaryIntranetSearchScopeUrl like: WSS,http://intranet/_layouts/1033/searchresults.aspx?q=$w

My way to search:
Then I add to the 'Microsoft Desktop Search' deskbar: 'WSS WordsIWantToSearch' or 'WordsIWantToSearch'... but don't find anything, nor a browser with the sharepoint pages is getting opened.

Question:
Do I have to add more group policies to get this working? What do I do wrong?

I`m having problems with Windows search, it is adding folders to my settings for no apperant reason.
For example, i add only one folder to the options/modify. And that is the only folder there.
After a couple of days it adds more folders which i dont want to happen.
How can i prevent windows search from adding random folders by itself.
The computers are on a network but have a local C drive search folder.

Thank you.