Introducing MSN Toolbar Suite - Silicon Valley team (and demo!) | TheChannel9Team

jantie

Nice job! I've installed it, works great at first sight.

NetRyder
Tech Junkie

Impressive! Great job by the MSN Search team. Smiley

I just have one problem - Outlook 2003 is set as the default mail client (within Outlook's options and IE's settings), but I can't seem to select it for indexing. The option is greyed out, and it says I need to set Outlook as the default mail application. I can select Outlook Express though. Outlook is already running and has the MSN toolbar at the top, by the way.

Any ideas?

Andre Da Costa
Created with PhotoDraw 2000 V2

I personally love the Deskbar Search, which by default appears on Taskbar, I don't like that. What I do is drag it to the side of my screen and turn it into a Side Bar, the search features in it are very cool, check it out here:

MSN Deskbar Search as Sidebar

Andre Da Costa
Created with PhotoDraw 2000 V2

Another thing you have to remember to do too, is Index everything first before you attempt to search.

Kryptos
Backup People!

OK, I first noticed the toolbar/desktop search had been released on the news section on a magazine web site.

I then come here out of intrest while downloading the toolbar, it has just finished downloading and it requires admin rights to install, it didn't even prompt me for the admin user name and passwords as other apps/utils have done.

I hope this is to be fixed in either the release code or the next beta.....

We should all be running with least privilege mode, right?

NetRyder
Tech Junkie

NetRyder wrote:
Impressive! Great job by the MSN Search team.

I just have one problem - Outlook 2003 is set as the default mail client (within Outlook's options and IE's settings), but I can't seem to select it for indexing. The option is greyed out, and it says I need to set Outlook as the default mail application. I can select Outlook Express though. Outlook is already running and has the MSN toolbar at the top, by the way.

Any ideas?

Fixed. Posted the problem on the MSN Search blog and got a response. Smiley

For anyone else who had the same problem, look for Bubba's comment here:
http://blogs.msdn.com/msnsearch/archive/2004/12/13/282000.aspx#FeedBack

tmaffin

The Channel 9 Team wrote:
"Wicked," is how interviewer Robert Scoble reacted when he saw the MSN Toolbar Suite demoed. Today Microsoft announced the MSN Toolbar Suite beta. You can get it now at http://beta.toolbar.msn.com.

What is the reg hack the geek typed in to clear the jelly beans?

khurram

I personally think, indexing visiting web pages is helpful; especially to folk like me, students. We browse the net, read new stuff around and then somewhere down the road we come across with something and we know that I saw something related on some webpage that I visited, but not remembering its URL; now using Google Desktop Search, it’s easy.

I wish MSN guys add it too, and also, just like what they have done that searching something on Google.com also shows the results of desktop (including visited pages). Adding these two I will definitely uninstall Google toolbar and desktop search J

Using indexing service as backend is nice, one can create custom filters for new formats, its super cool; to have some nice UI for indexing service.

Don Krause

Hmmm, trying to install it using firefox, and I get the standard "Your computer doesn't meet the minimum requirements" error.

At least googles' tool could care less about the browser I'm using.