NewWorldMan

I've found Copernic to be good enough. Not noticed the days to detect new files. Just a pity that it doesn't support WLM.

I tried Google and as well as taking ages, e.g., over a day to index it grinds my PC to halt. Actually I tried it on two machines a few months ago. At work it was OK (apart from the slow index). At home it was unusable.

I did have the same problem with Copernic at version 1.5. But from 1.7 onwards it's been fine.

Anyway, re: WDS 4 I had in the meantime given up and uninstalled it. As it happens I have most of my mail synched with GMail. So I can just search that if I'm desperate to find mail content.

Kevin
"Urbane.Tiger" <viking.warrior@xxxxxx> wrote in message news:38CdnTDpvJIbc83VnZ2dnUVZ_jKdnZ2d@xxxxxx
Re alternatives, if you want integration into MS mail products there aren't any as far as I know. My experience is that the alternatives are just as problematic as WDS.

Google chews up resources if you create a a lot of files quickly (eg unpack an iso), Copernic takes too long to detect presence of new files (sometimes days), I have not tried Yahoo. WLMail (was WLM Deskop),
Windows Live Hotmail (WLH) (was Windows Live Mail)
Windows Live Messenger (WLM) (not to be confused with Windows Messenger (vanilla))
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"NewWorldMan" <kevin@xxxxxx> wrote in message news:6F9F846E-E502-4BA8-8C7B-13F9372B53A5@xxxxxx
OK, I've looked at the various discussions of this and I still can't get it to work. In particular I've checked the store folder, checked eml and nws and verified the indexing service is running. I've rebuilt the WDS index and still no joy.

A while back I tried WDS 3 and had no joy either. To be honest, even if I get it working by further fiddling around the experience shouldn't be like this. It should "just work." To be fair, it does in fact do this for Outlook, as I've tried it at work. WLM has been out quite a while now so I would expect a new version of WDS to work out of the box with it.

I do have Copernic Desktop Search on the system which I think is still the best of the desktop search products. Unfortunately, it does not support WLM, hence why I'm trying WDS. However, it won't be on my PC for much longer at this rate.

I'm normally a huge fan of Microsoft's but they do seem to be losing their touch recently.

My PC is Win XP SP2.

Kevin