I'm indexing over 200 thousand items and my results are nearly
instantaneous, just for a comparison.
Perhaps you've installed an incompatible filter?
rtk
"Arend" <Arend@xxxxxx> wrote in message
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> You are wrong. Vista search is not MUCH SLOWER!!! It is VERY VERY MUCH
> SLOWER!! And when eventually the results (email) do show up, I get them
> twice!!!! This happens when you move an incoming message to a folder. The
> “vista search” finds the email in the inbox (which does not exist there
> anymore, because you have moved it) plus in the folder you moved it to. To
> avoid this you need to rebuild the index every day before you go to
> bed!!!!!
>
> This was a problem that I encountered in January that I bought the vista.
> I
> went back to XP and I thought that 10 months later this problem would have
> been resolved. I was wrong!!! This means I will reinstall XP again.
>
> The WDS for XP it is 1000000 times better and I would very much like to
> ask
> those who developed the instant (ha ha ha) search in vista what did they
> really have in mind????
> Not only was WDS for XP way faster but you could easily isolate different
> results (contacts - Appointments - notes - etc) with just one click!!!!!
>
> Can someone with access to Microsoft’s developers ask this for me? And
> also
> ask them to make the wds for xp also possible to be installed in vista???
>
> Here in Greece we say: “vista is svista” and svista means “uninstall
> it”!!!!!!!!
>
> Unfortunately you figure this out after the money you spend to buy it!!!
> (along with the money you spend to upgrade your hardware and software
> because
> mostly nothing works with it)
>
> Christos
>
>
> "SearchCrazy" wrote:
> Quote:
>>
>> Microsoft should have a search technology in Vista that is better than
>> MSN
>> Desktop Search or at least equivelant!!. Unfortunately, MSN Desktop
>> Search
>> was way better than Vista Search in all aspects: performance, accuracy,
>> showing results, etc. I don't know what is wrong with the development
>> team!
>> It seems to me they are using a totally different search technology than
>> the
>> great MSN Desktop Search technology! Why don't they just use the same
>> technology rather than starting over from the scratch?! I don't know..
>>
>> The way I used to browse search results under MSN Desktop Search was MUCH
>> BETTER than the search results window in Vista. Additionally, Vista
>> Search is
>> EXTREMELY SLOW compared to MSN Desktop Search! (In many cases searching
>> for
>> documents manually is much faster!!!).
>>
>> The worst part is the incompatibility between MSN Desktop Search and
>> Vista!
>> It just does not install on Vista. So, you've got two options only: the
>> very
>> slow Vista Search or the un-integrated but VERY FAST Google Desktop
>> Search!
>> Oh sorry, there is a third option: Go back to Windows XP and use MSN
>> Desktop
>> Search.
>>
>> As a VERY HEAVY MSN Desktop Search user, I AM VERY DISAPPOINTED with
>> Vista
>> Search. I know that many people will be stunned by Vista Search because
>> most
>> of them never used a desktop search technology! But I bet that Google
>> Desktop
>> users will continue using Google Desktop Search even if they upgrade to
>> Vista. But MSN Desktop users (like me and you) will see themselves under
>> very
>> tough "search" situation: very slow Vista, un-integrated Google or back
>> to XP!
>>
>> From this Discussion Group I AM ASKING WINDOWS VISTA TEAM to compare the
>> performance of Vista Search to MSN Desktop Search or even to Google
>> Desktop
>> Search. Remember, In search, performance is EVERYTHING.You guys need to
>> squeeze the performance to the maximum. You need to get VERY SMART
>> algorithms
>> to handle search! I know you can do it! But you MUST do it very fast
>> because
>> people will not wait forever!
>>
>> "henrik" wrote:
>> Quote:
>> > I really don't believe this, but when upgrading from XP with MSN search
>> > to
>> > Vista I get substantially slower search, with bad results;
>> > - does not index network drives (although they are added in search-CP)
>> > - very slow - you don't get instant results, but wait 20-60 seconds
>> >
>> > Henrik
>> >
>>
>>
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