Vista's built in search

Posted By: Typhoon87 | Oct 7th, 2008 @ 1:30 PM
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#Oct 16th, 2008 @ 10:16 AM
intelman
intelman
Oh, I love desktop search, well I did when it works. I want it to work on my laptop!!
#Oct 16th, 2008 @ 10:23 AM
Yggdrasil
Yggdrasil
Pour me a cab, 'cause I can't drink no more.
Actually, I've been fiddling around with it now, and have managed to get it to work a bit better (a second index rebuild seems to have done the trick, plus re-enabling "Search entire index in Start Menu"), and the thing I like most is the natural language search, because it lets me type things like "beatles folders" and get only folders that are under my Beatles directory - which I can then right-click at my leisure. 
I would still like it to be smarter and let me use NLP searches for properties - "mp3 where genre is jazz", or even decipher the shorter "jazz mp3s" - but I don't know if it's there yet.
#Oct 16th, 2008 @ 10:25 AM
Yggdrasil
Yggdrasil
Pour me a cab, 'cause I can't drink no more.
Hmm, seems I can just add genre:jazz for this. Coolness.
Also, track:01 gives me the first tracks of any albums I have, which is uselessly cool. I think I'll make myself a mixtape. Smiley
#Oct 16th, 2008 @ 11:23 AM
PaoloM
PaoloM
Hypermediocrity

I don't remember exactly how it was in XP, but if you search from c:\ you should get an infobar telling you that search in non indexed locations may be slow... btw, why don't you want to index your whole drive if that's a frequent enough scenario?

#Oct 16th, 2008 @ 11:24 AM
intelman
intelman
The search is more powerful than people realize, there was a thread back where you can specify image resolution...etc.
#Oct 16th, 2008 @ 11:41 AM
BHpaddock
BHpaddock
To search unindexed locations in XP, click the "Open Search Companion" link (or whatever it says) that appears at the bottom of the search pane (the pane that pops out on the left when you click Search in XP).
#Oct 16th, 2008 @ 12:10 PM
intelman
intelman
Ok my second index rebuild did nothing.


To force indexing until it is complete after the rebuild. Index "up to date". 1170 items indexed. 

*.doc, *.docx, *.pdf  do not show up still. This is driving me nuts now. I can't live without search after getting used to it. Urgh.
#Oct 16th, 2008 @ 7:18 PM
Typhoon87
Typhoon87
Facilitator of our reality

I have no issues with .doc or docx in the index did you change a setting?

#Oct 17th, 2008 @ 9:32 AM
intelman
intelman
No, at this point this is a clean install...

In addition, I've reset everything to defaults.

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#Dec 13th, 2008 @ 4:03 PM
Flyingk02
Flyingk02
He yI think I can help you out with this.

Check if the individual files that you're looking for have the "archive" box checked (under properties).

This might explain why the results appear after you select "search in all locations."

I had this same problem -- it took me forever to figure out.
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