Figured out the VPC thing. No problem.
So here's the screen shot of the indexing mystery.
http://members.ozemail.com.au/~sj.ha...taIndexing.jpg
Approximately 43,000 e-mail (more than 41,000 in the archive *.pst alone),
yet Vista search seems happy that it indexed just 178 items, and that's
after letting it sit all night, quite literally. Just how long would I have
to wait for it to index all my e-mail?
:-(
"Wayne Hartell" <w.hartell@xxxxxx> wrote in message
news:1968CB8A-A7D1-4FC6-89F0-48F5DB830F28@xxxxxx
Quote:
> 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
> news:%23JDJ66JcIHA.4144@xxxxxx Quote:
>>
>> "Wayne Hartell" <w.hartell@xxxxxx> wrote in message
>> news:C67A6C4E-F053-43E2-82AD-CC64564DF56A@xxxxxx
>> Quote:
>>> 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. 
>