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Speed Up Your Search in Windows XP Print
Written by windowsxp550   
Tuesday, 27 March 2007
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Image One of the new features of Windows Vista is the ability to have instant search. Well you may or may not know, but with a add-on from Microsoft, you can get this functionality in Windows XP. The add-on is Windows Desktop Search….

Here is a blurb about Windows Desktop Search that explains how it works (this was taken from Microsoft’s Windows Desktop download page )

… Windows Desktop Search, you can search for e-mail, documents and other files located on your computer. No information about the files on your computer will be sent to Microsoft as part of this process. Instead, Windows Desktop Search will index the content of your computer and store the index file on your computer. You can customize Windows Desktop Search to index only specified folders on your computer. Windows Desktop search will not store copies of e-mail or documents after they are deleted.



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Slow down your computer with Windows desktop Search
written by Andy Wise, May 14, 2007
I don;t know about the title of this entry... for me ever since it was installed my laptop has run like a dog.

I installed MS Outlook 2007 and discovered I could not search without installing Windows desktop search - having done so everything runs very slowly & when ever I try to search it says it has not finished indexing.

another fine improvement from Microsoft - not

Andy
another option
written by Josh, March 27, 2007
I think another good option to search your computer is Coveo. It's what I use and it's free. There's also Google desktop search, but it's not as good as coveo.

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