Note:
The Deskbar may still be visible until you restart your computer.

Nata1 wrote:

Its completely tanking my box, it indexes pretty much constantly - Yahoo desktop is the only desktop search that adheres to basic performance guidelines.

How do I get rid of this piece of junk?

I use it to use MSN search which rocks.

I want to uninstall windows desktop search which sucks - I have a brand new dell, all I have running is my dev tools.  It hangs my computer on shutdown, and tanks my computer constantly - it indexes folders it shouldn't be.

Yahoo is clearly a better, more performant product.

So how do I get rid of the windows desktop search without giving up the toolbar I need for MSN searches (MSN is my favorite internet search app, Windows desktop is my least favorite desktop search by a longshot)

I disabled it, and its set not to index, but it still does and bogs my system. 

If these guys are so cool that they won't even say high to Selberg at SIGIR, how come their product SUCKS

I DONT want to give up my msn toolbar to get rid of this Malware, but what choice do I have?

Nata1 wrote:

AHHHHH!!!!!!

I disabled it, and its set not to index, but it still does and bogs my system. 

If these guys are so cool that they won't even say high to Selberg at SIGIR, how come their product SUCKS

I DONT want to give up my msn toolbar to get rid of this Malware, but what choice do I have?

darrenjamesw wrote:

Version 02.06.5000.5378. Thanks for your time

PaoloM wrote:

0 usually means no.

Anyways, we're days away from shipping WDS 3.0, you may want to take a look at that when it's out

Cybermagellan wrote:



PaoloM wrote: 0 usually means no. Anyways, we're days away from shipping WDS 3.0, you may want to take a look at that when it's out

Or you can try SpectateSwapSearch

Cybermagellan wrote:



PaoloM wrote: 0 usually means no. Anyways, we're days away from shipping WDS 3.0, you may want to take a look at that when it's out

Or you can try SpectateSwapSearch

darrenjamesw wrote:

Doesn't it seem odd that the WDS install process sets the "create uninstall folder" switch to 0?

darrenjamesw wrote:

Paolo, can you tell us anything about WDS 3.0?

Nata1 wrote:

what am I missing - I find no way to uninstall it!

Its completely tanking my box, it indexes pretty much constantly - Yahoo desktop is the only desktop search that adheres to basic performance guidelines.

How do I get rid of this piece of junk?

PaoloM wrote:



darrenjamesw wrote: Paolo, can you tell us anything about WDS 3.0?

What do you want to know?

darrenjamesw wrote:



PaoloM wrote:  darrenjamesw wrote: Paolo, can you tell us anything about WDS 3.0? What do you want to know?

I was wondering about "what's new", but I found Beta 3 and installed it. I now have an entry in "Add/Remove". One of the things I didn't like about 2.5 was the inability to move the index location; beta 3 allows this...I think I'll give it a try for awhile

PaoloM wrote:



darrenjamesw wrote:  PaoloM wrote:  darrenjamesw wrote: Paolo, can you tell us anything about WDS 3.0? What do you want to know? I was wondering about "what's new", but I found Beta 3 and installed it. I now have an entry in "Add/Remove". One of the things I didn't like about 2.5 was the inability to move the index location; beta 3 allows this...I think I'll give it a try for awhile

Wowowowow.... we only released beta 2!

What exactly did you find?

darrenjamesw wrote:



PaoloM wrote:  darrenjamesw wrote:  PaoloM wrote:  darrenjamesw wrote: Paolo, can you tell us anything about WDS 3.0? What do you want to know? I was wondering about "what's new", but I found Beta 3 and installed it. I now have an entry in "Add/Remove". One of the things I didn't like about 2.5 was the inability to move the index location; beta 3 allows this...I think I'll give it a try for awhile Wowowowow.... we only released beta 2! What exactly did you find?

Sorry...wasn't "Beta 3" was "Version 3.0 Beta 2"

Open Start Menu > Run And type in msconfig and press entrer key
It's now open the System Configuration Utility.  Now select the Servives Tab an search the list for "Windows Search". When you find it just click on that little square to disable it. Click Apply.
Again open start menu > Programs > Startup and delete the Windows search icon.
Restart your computer and voilá its done!

Have fun and remember, Microsoft sucks!

At least the condescending marzipan dog could FIND THINGS. Now he's gone, and I'm using dir /b /s filename to find files by name.

brianiac wrote:

Office 2007 (Outlook) constantly nags and shills until you install Windows Desktop Search. Once you've done so, there is no entry in Add/Remove Programs. You can sort of disable it, provided you are pretty technical, but you can't get rid of it.

What's worse is that the Desktop Search is completely worthless. It is incredibly inefficient, and has NEVER ONCE found a file on my filesystem, even when I give it the full name of the file.

At least the condescending marzipan dog could FIND THINGS. Now he's gone, and I'm using dir /b /s filename to find files by name.

I feel tricked.

I'm going to have to send this issue to my state's Attorney General. Something isn't right here.

I tried that by going through the normal Control Paner uninstall routine and it still runs but keeps poping up run errors.

The real problem is the search indexing .EXE.

I commented it out and the performance of my Dell Laptop went up immediately.

here is what I did:

1. Open Task Manager and expand

2. Click on Mem Usage to see who / what is hogging up memory

3. searchindexer.exe was at the top on my list

4. Close Taskmanager

5. Open Windows Search (yeah, I know but click to use the old version and close the new (crappy) version

6. Do a search for "searchindexer"

7. I had several hits but selected the actual application

8. Select it in the list and right click and choose rename

9. Insert a "!" and a space at the front of the file name

10. Close search

11. Cold re-boot your machine

Now the searchindexer will not load and run and your maching peformance should increase.

Jim Lee

Savannah, Georgia

tekiegirl wrote:

Here is how to uninstall Windows Desktop Search (WDS) completely from your PC (step-by-step for those who need it):

1. Click on the Start Menu, then Run.

2. Type cmd in the box and click OK. This will bring up the command line.

3. You should see C:\Documents and Settings\your username>
Type cd.. then press the enter or return key. Do this again.

4. The display should now read C:\>
Type cd windows (or what ever directory windows was installed to, in most cases this is windows) and press enter again.

5. You should now have C:\windows\>
Type the following and press enter:
$NtUninstallKB917013$\spuninst\spuninst.exe /q /promptrestart

6. A box will now appear to confirm the WDS has been uninstalled and asks you to restart. Once you have restarted the PC WDS is gone!

PaoloM said:

Have you tried going to Control Panel -> Add/Remove programs, and uninstall Windows Desktop Search?

If this your machine or is it controlled (via GPO) from your IT department? If that's the case, they may have disabled the ability to unistall certain software, so you'd have to talk to them directly about it.

HavenBastion said:

PaoloM said:

*snip*

The problem for me isn't the indexing, it's that it won't search anything UNLESS it's indexed. since i have about 2tb of data and it's constantly changing, when i want to do a search on a new directory i get nothing. NOTHING! that's utterly absurd for microsoft to allow.

YearOfTheLinuxDesktop said:

tekiegirl wrote:

Here is how to uninstall Windows Desktop Search (WDS) completely from your PC (step-by-step for those who need it):

1. Click on the Start Menu, then Run.

2. Type cmd in the box and click OK. This will bring up the command line.

3. You should see C:\Documents and Settings\your username>
Type cd.. then press the enter or return key. Do this again.

4. The display should now read C:\>
Type cd windows (or what ever directory windows was installed to, in most cases this is windows) and press enter again.

5. You should now have C:\windows\>
Type the following and press enter:
$NtUninstallKB917013$\spuninst\spuninst.exe /q /promptrestart

6. A box will now appear to confirm the WDS has been uninstalled and asks you to restart. Once you have restarted the PC WDS is gone!

or just type %windir%\$NtUninstallKB917013$\spuninst\spuninst.exe /q /promptrestart in the Run prompt

javagirl1965 said:

Windows Desktop Search does display in Add/Remove Programs.  It took me a while to find it.  And I believe this may be the sole issue with our users calling saying they are getting the pop up box about network issues in Outlook.  I believe we will be sending an uninstall packet or manually uninstalling from all our machines.  It's name in Add/Remove programs is Windows Search 4.0.

And I believe this may be the sole issue with our users calling saying they are getting the pop up box about network issues in Outlook.

javagirl1965 said:

Windows Desktop Search does display in Add/Remove Programs.  It took me a while to find it.  And I believe this may be the sole issue with our users calling saying they are getting the pop up box about network issues in Outlook.  I believe we will be sending an uninstall packet or manually uninstalling from all our machines.  It's name in Add/Remove programs is Windows Search 4.0.

dsl01 said:

i have successfully removed this all you need to do is go to control pannel add remove programs an remove windows search. it will ask you if you want to continue you click yes.

Holy mother of moly...this was a 3 year old thread you conjured from the Channel 9 basement

Harlequin said:

dsl01 said:

*snip*

Holy mother of moly...this was a 3 year old thread you conjured from the Channel 9 basement

Michael Griffiths said:

Nata1 wrote:

AHHHHH!!!!!!

I disabled it, and its set not to index, but it still does and bogs my system. 

If these guys are so cool that they won't even say high to Selberg at SIGIR, how come their product SUCKS

I DONT want to give up my msn toolbar to get rid of this Malware, but what choice do I have?

All you have to do is remove the program from the Startup folder in your Start Menu.

Really. That's the only place it starts up.

Calling it malware is also (1) FUD, (2) incorrect, and (3) dilutes the value of the word. Please don't call something malware when it isn't, because the line gets blurred - and that is not a good thing.

"I think you need to be more politcally correct about Microsoft's products so I re-wrote your post to include that... Feel free to edit over the original: 

My computer, similar to those supplied by Apple, does not have the minimal requirements, as advised by Microsoft to run the MSN Search Bar. Yahoo! Desktop Search has lower requirements but does not index as much content and also Yahoo! lacks Microsoft's expert knowledge of the Windows platform and do not perform to Microsoft's high standards. 

Although I love MSN Search Bar I feel that I must remove it until I am able to buy a system that is over the minimal system requirements for running Microsoft Desktop Search. How might I do so in a safe, and easy way?"

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Buddy, if you're gonna spout out crap like this, maybe you can muster up an answer for me:

Based on "Microsoft's expert knowledge", why does WDS (at version 4.0) STILL not support indexing of network drives for 64-bit systems? I can search 'em manually, but I can't index 'em... now that's what I call "Microsoft's high standards".

Eat it.

vandassen said:

Michael Griffiths said:

*snip*

"I think you need to be more politcally correct about Microsoft's products so I re-wrote your post to include that... Feel free to edit over the original: 

My computer, similar to those supplied by Apple, does not have the minimal requirements, as advised by Microsoft to run the MSN Search Bar. Yahoo! Desktop Search has lower requirements but does not index as much content and also Yahoo! lacks Microsoft's expert knowledge of the Windows platform and do not perform to Microsoft's high standards. 

Although I love MSN Search Bar I feel that I must remove it until I am able to buy a system that is over the minimal system requirements for running Microsoft Desktop Search. How might I do so in a safe, and easy way?"

 

~~~

 

Buddy, if you're gonna spout out crap like this, maybe you can muster up an answer for me:

 

Based on "Microsoft's expert knowledge", why does WDS (at version 4.0) STILL not support indexing of network drives for 64-bit systems? I can search 'em manually, but I can't index 'em... now that's what I call "Microsoft's high standards".

 

Eat it.

vandassen said:

Based on "Microsoft's expert knowledge", why does WDS (at version 4.0) STILL not support indexing of network drives for 64-bit systems? I can search 'em manually, but I can't index 'em... now that's what I call "Microsoft's high standards".

Performance.

It's pretty much impossile to produce an accurate index of a remote share, where any number of changes can occur without the local indexer being any the wiser. That means that indexing remote shares would require perpetually rebuilding indexes or putting up with horribly inaccurate results.

WDS takes that problem right out of the picture by using the WDS engine running on the remote machine to obtain indexing results for the remote share, but that rather relies on WDS running on the remote machine to enable it.

AndyC said:

vandassen said:

*snip*

Performance.

 

It's pretty much impossile to produce an accurate index of a remote share, where any number of changes can occur without the local indexer being any the wiser. That means that indexing remote shares would require perpetually rebuilding indexes or putting up with horribly inaccurate results.

 

WDS takes that problem right out of the picture by using the WDS engine running on the remote machine to obtain indexing results for the remote share, but that rather relies on WDS running on the remote machine to enable it.

Thanks Andy, this is the first response I've found ...perhaps I shouldn't have posted in such a rude way  

Anyways, can you explain how I can setup my network in this way:

"WDS takes that problem right out of the picture by using the WDS engine running on the remote machine to obtain indexing results for the remote share, but that rather relies on WDS running on the remote machine to enable it."

Currently I've removed WDS and I'm using GDS. Google indexes each night after I leave work and it's good for the next day, but as you mentioned, this does not take into account changes to the network during the day. Also WDS works with Solidworks and offers some functions that GDS does not (if it were working). 

Any suggestions?

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Here's my scenario:

We are running several computers with SW 2009 (soon to be 2010) (1) XP Pro SP3 32-bit & (2) XP Pro SP2 64-bit.

We keep our SW parts on a network drive.

With the XP Pro SP3 32-bit system, Windows Desktop search allows me to index mapped network drives. The 32-bit system has no trouble using the built-in SW search function.

Unfortunately, this is not true for the XP Pro SP2 64-bit system, because WDS does not support indexing of network drives for 64-bit OS.  "Q: I cannot add a UNC file path on a 64-bit Microsoft Windows operating system.  A: No workaround. The UNC protocol handler doesn’t currently support 64-bit versions of Windows."

What this means to me is that the built-in search function in SW on my 64-bit system does not find files on the network. The only way is to manually search in WDS (rather than in SW) and point WDS to the specified network drive.

If anyone can correct me if I'm wrong or point me in the right direction, that would be much appreciated.

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Are you saying that if I run WDS on the remote machine I should be able to use my 64-bit machine in the same way I use the 32-bit machine?

Thanks