You could make sure to use some of the 200 file types that WDS can index...
http://www.microsoft.com/windows/des...earchtype.mspx http://channel9.msdn.com/wiki/defaul...SearchIFilters http://www.ifilter.org/
"Celegans" <Celegans@nospam.nospam> wrote in message
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> 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?
>
>