Re: How to Enable Indexing in Vista
"Dave Wood [MS]" <davewood@online.microsoft.com> wrote in message
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> All of the things you describe here can be done with the built-in Vista
> search. If the indexer is not running or if you are searching a
> non-indexed location then search is done without the index, which may be
> slower but will still work.
Doug. Thank you for your response, but the Windows Vista search simply does
not work adequately like it did in Windows 95, Windows 98, and Windows 2000,
and Windows XP (after a fix
http://support.microsoft.com/default...B;EN-US;309173 ). Microsoft
should fix this problem post haste so scientists and engineers can use Vista
to find scientific data -- which is what I'm trying to do.
See this article with history of Windows search and how Vista has made
things worse, not better (Vista has brought improvements, but how can they
be appreciated when things that worked now fail?)
File Search in Vista Worse than Windows 95, 98, 2000 and XP?
http://www.pcmagvote.com/story.php?t..._2000_and_XP-1
Do you have a solution for scenario #2 in the comments to that article?
Comments from National Instruments:
http://zone.ni.com/devzone/cda/tut/p/id/5604#toc6
"While Windows Vista searching capabilities may satisfy general users, they
MAY NOT BE ADEQUATE for engineers and scientists. Windows Vista helps you
quickly locate saved files based on metadata, but you cannot search file
content to identify meaningful information."
"For example, you might have thousands of files containing data from
experiments or tests. To make educated decisions based on that information
stored in those files, you must not only carry out complex searches to find
the files but also identify key information or establish trends within the
files; neither are tasks that Instant Search can accomplish. To find and
interpret data rapidly, you need additional tools, such as the National
Instruments DIAdem DataFinder."
Why won't Microsoft admit that search is a problem in Vista, that search in
Vista is "not adequate" and do something about it, instead of frustrating
scientists and engineers who are trying to search scientific/engineering
data using Vista?