To answer you questions briefly:
- The Windows Search indexer should be able to handle these kinds of
scenarios. If you decide you don't want it to run you need to disable the
Windows Search service.
- You can control what locations are indexed through the Indexing Options
Control Panel, or programatically. We don't currently support multiple
indexes. I think there's some control of when indexing happens
programatically, it depends exactly what scenario you are trying to achieve.
The root of the docs on Windows Search are here:
http://msdn2.microsoft.com/en-us/library/aa965362.aspx
- Yes we support a pretty rich query syntax, an overview of which is here:
http://windowshelp.microsoft.com/Win...02ec61033.mspx
I hope this helps,
Dave Wood
"Peter Frank" <peter_frankde@yahoo.de> wrote in message
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> Hi,
>
> I have a couple of questions about the new index-based full-text
> search of Windows Vista.
>
> 1) Is it powerful enough to handle huge amounts of data consisting of
> PDF documents, Word, Excel and Powerpoint files (around 20 GB)? Or
> would a third-party solution like dtSearch be the better choice? If
> this is the better choice, can the indexing by Windows Vista be
> disabled?
>
> 2) Is there any way I can manage or control the indexing process?
> a) Can I set the location of the index files?
> b) Can I create multiple indexes?
> c) Can I control in any way when the indexing takes place?
>
> 3) Can I perform advanced searches using Boolean operators?
>
> Peter