There's no way to do this built-in to Vista. I'm not aware of a third-party
gadget to do this.
"Ben Cadet" <BenCadet@xxxxxx> wrote in message
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>I think it would be more ergonomic and easier to use.
> To be honest, Dave, I didn't think it would be that hard a thing to sort
> out.
> I'm used to using this kind of search on other OSs, and if I recall
> correctly, Google desktop has this kind of functionality - but I would
> rather
> remain 'In House', so to speak, as my experiences from using google
> desktop a
> few years ago showed it to be an awful system hog.
> Ben
>
>
> "Dave Wood [MSFT]" wrote:
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>> Can you explain what having search on the taskbar would add for you over
>> the
>> existing Start Menu search?
>>
>> Dave
>>
>> "Ben Cadet" <BenCadet@xxxxxx> wrote in message
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>> > Thanks for the reply, Dave
>> >
>> > Unfortunately still does not supply me with an answer!
>> > I checked out http://brandontools.com/ , but there was nothing that
>> > helped
>> > me there.
>> >
>> > Any one else have any ideas?
>> >
>> > Ben
>> >
>> > "Dave Wood [MSFT]" wrote:
>> >
>> >> The replacement for search on the task bar is having search in the
>> >> start
>> >> menu. It's the same number of clicks away - just click or hit the
>> >> windows
>> >> key and start typing your search.
>> >>
>> >> One of the devs in the search team Brandon has a couple of tools and
>> >> gadgets
>> >> available for download - I'm not sure they do exactly what you want
>> >> but
>> >> you
>> >> might find them interesting: http://brandontools.com/
>> >>
>> >> Dave Wood
>> >>
>> >>
>> >> "Ben Cadet" <Ben Cadet@xxxxxx> wrote in message
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>> >> > I've just spent the last few hours futilely trying to add the native
>> >> > 'Windows
>> >> > desktop search' to either my taskbar, or the sidebar as a gadget -
>> >> > but
>> >> > to
>> >> > no
>> >> > avail.
>> >> >
>> >> > Does anyone have any idea how to provide this obvious piece of
>> >> > ergonomics
>> >> > &
>> >> > functionality?
>> >> >
>> >> > I'm VERY suprised that this isn't an 'easy' thing to do...
>> >> >
>> >> > Ben
>> >> >
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