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05-14-2008

Why don't they reply then?
"Tom Ferguson" <tom.newsgroups@xxxxxx> wrote in message
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>I am sure there are many who know how to "fix it", at least, in principle.
>And many of them are at Microsoft. <g>
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> Without going into the details of search theory or methods of
> implementation: It could well be that nothing is actually broken so does
> not need fixing in the strict sense. Possibly, the search algorithms are
> performing exactly as designed. However, it also might be true that they
> could be better implemented. For example, they could be recoded into
> assembly or direct machine code-seldom done now-but that's a topic for a
> different place and time. As one example of a fast search-isoHunt, a
> Torrent search engine, is very rapid considering the vast quantity of
> data indexed however it retunes a quantity of false positives.
>
> In designing any program, there are many trade-offs. All of them affect
> the search speed. E.g. Do you do a full, all storage devices search or
> limit it to a particular set of locations (Vista actually allows the user
> to modify to search entire index or just user files). How highly do you
> value reliability (same results on repeated searches of the same data),
> accuracy/fuzziness (result matches target/result is a near match), &c. But
> Here I am probably not saying anything you don't know.
>
> In short, if it's not too late for that, we can be certain that these are
> matters that are routinely reviewed as development goes forward as halting
> and retrograde as that motion sometimes appears.
> --
>
> Tom
> MSMVP 1998-2007
>
>
> "Dima" <kopn@xxxxxx> wrote in message
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>> No, I have not find any new information. It's strange that nobody knows a
>> resolution to the slow search in Vista!
>> "R. C. White" <rc@xxxxxx> wrote in message
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	>>> Hi, Dima. >>> >>> Is there an echo in here? >>> >>> This sounds like the discussion we had here a week or two ago. Yes, >>> here it is: started by you on 4/28/08, Subject: Why does Windows Vista >>> x64 search so long? Like this current post, it was cross-posted to 3 >>> NGs; that thread has 9 posts, of which 5 were from you. One is from me, >>> one from Tony Sperling and 2 from Colin Barnhorst. >>> >>> The bulk of your current post is a cut-n-pasted direct quote from my >>> post of 4/28/08 in that other thread. I don't mind your using my >>> description of the problem, but whenever you "borrow" text from >>> somewhere, common courtesy (and Netiquette) requires that you identify >>> the source. >>> >>> Have you found new information about this problem, Dima? Or are you >>> just asking the same question again? >>> >>> RC >>> -- >>> R. C. White, CPA >>> San Marcos, TX >>> rc@xxxxxx >>> Microsoft Windows MVP >>> (Running Windows Live Mail 2008 in Vista Ultimate x64 SP1) >>> >>> "Dima" <kopn@xxxxxx> wrote in message >>> news:#uU#J3ssIHA.4544@xxxxxx >>>> Hello! >>>> Why does Windows Vista x64 search so long, especially when the progress >>>> in the bar is at the end and the ring is rolling (a replacement for the >>>> sand glass)? >>>> When a search is not "nearly instantaneous" it takes nearly forever. >>>> That is, when you ask for an Advanced Search of Computer, the bar first >>>> goes half-way across fairly quickly. Then it goes more slowly to about >>>> 3/4 of the way, appearing to redraw the bar every second or so, then >>>> more slowly still to 7/8, etc., getting closer to the end with each >>>> redraw - but never quite reaching the end. I watch hopefully as it >>>> gets to the little down-pointing triangle, thinking that it will give >>>> up when it gets there and report that it can't find what it's searching >>>> for. But it doesn't. It keeps creeping further, past the vertical >>>> separator at the end of the Address Bar, and then at a maddeningly slow >>>> pace across the red "X" and... hours later, the green bar is still >>>> being redrawn and it STILL hasn't got to the end. >>>> Windows XP Pro on the same computer (but on another HDD) searches for >>>> the same files (on all HDDs) five times faster. >>>> Sincerely, >>>> Dima >>>

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