Hi Arnold,
Thanks for the reply, but...
A. I'm not talking about searching for files.
B. I only want to search indexed results (that's the point in wanting to
have them indexed). I do not want to include non-indexed anything because
it's slow.
So, it's not that hard eh? I beg to differ. It's either totally convoluted
or totally broken. (I'm talking about the search/indexing, not Vista in
general, yet).
This morning I have awoken 8 hours later to find it has indexed only 178
e-mails out of something like 43,000. I deliberately disabled all
sleep/power saving, screen saver and virus scanning so it could have no
excuses for not indexing, so why didn't it index?
I never said the UI was hard to use. I'm not someone who will get on to a
newsgroup if I can't work it out after 5 minutes, I took more or less all of
yesterday and read just about everything I could find on it, yet this still
doesn't work. This is horribly broken, IMO.
When I can figure out why my wireless adapter isn't showing up as an
available network adapter for my virtual machines (like it did under XP in
VPC 2007), I'll upload an image of the Indexing options dialog that clearly
shows the locations being indexed, that indexing is "complete" and the count
of items that is unbelievably incorrect.
I can't believe I am the only person to have tried indexing Outlook 2003 on
Vista??
Regards,
Wayne.
"Mr. Arnold" <MR. Arnold@xxxxxx> wrote in message
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> "Wayne Hartell" <w.hartell@xxxxxx> wrote in message
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>> ps/ Indexing just finished again. "Indexing complete." it says. 5,641
>> items indexed. That's only about 37,000 less than it should be. Test
>> search for an e-mail at random. No hits. Vista search sucks.
>> Arrrggggghhh! X1 here I come.
>
> If you want to use Vista Search, the use the Adv Search and use the
> *Include non indexed and system files*, and it will find any file or files
> you're looking for. Once I discovered that, then I have never had another
> problem with Vista Search finding anything, where previously the Search
> wasn't finding any thing I was looking for, because I don't know how to
> use the search, and I was calling it a piece of junk.
>
> BTW, I am a programmer too and have done all the things you have done.
> Vista is not that hard, and it doesn't take a rocket scientist to figure
> it out. 