Vista - Searches on Non Index an the back button

Searching on non indexed folders can be painfull. Even more more painfull
when you have to retreive the same results again - And it does the search all
over again.

I did a search I windows explorere that took a few minutes, then browsed
another folder to look at something , then hit the back button and it did the
search all over again. Cant vista not tell if the file system has been
changed and only then repeat a search for these kid of cases?

Regards

Your best bet is to simply index the entire system, then all of your searches
will be much faster. It'll take a while but it's a good investment in your
time if you don't plan on wiping the partition any time soon.

"blueey" wrote:

> Searching on non indexed folders can be painfull. Even more more painfull
> when you have to retreive the same results again - And it does the search all
> over again.
>
> I did a search I windows explorere that took a few minutes, then browsed
> another folder to look at something , then hit the back button and it did the
> search all over again. Cant vista not tell if the file system has been
> changed and only then repeat a search for these kid of cases?
>
> Regards

Thanks , but i have another question though,

If i do that , index the whole system, then whats the point of indexing?
I assumed indexing was meant to speed up searches on directories that are
commonly used to store and get info.

So if we have everything indexed - system as well, then would it not be tons
of info in the index file and searches going on for a while

I'm guessing that you dont mean entire system but only certain folders or am
i missing something

"Adam" wrote:

> Your best bet is to simply index the entire system, then all of your searches
> will be much faster. It'll take a while but it's a good investment in your
> time if you don't plan on wiping the partition any time soon.
>
> "blueey" wrote:
>
> > Searching on non indexed folders can be painfull. Even more more painfull
> > when you have to retreive the same results again - And it does the search all
> > over again.
> >
> > I did a search I windows explorere that took a few minutes, then browsed
> > another folder to look at something , then hit the back button and it did the
> > search all over again. Cant vista not tell if the file system has been
> > changed and only then repeat a search for these kid of cases?
> >
> > Regards

The index is designed to be very fast for searching - much faster than the
non-indexed searches. I have about 250,000 items in my index and searches
take only a couple of seconds.

Note that there can be some performance overhead building an index of that
size in the first place, which is why we don't index the entire hard-drive
by default. But if you want fast searches over the whole drive I would
recommend trying it out ...

Dave Wood


"blueey" <blueey@discussions.microsoft.com> wrote in message
news:EF3A6942-7B04-4B8E-AB37-C77377F05BCE@microsoft.com...
> Thanks , but i have another question though,
>
> If i do that , index the whole system, then whats the point of indexing?
> I assumed indexing was meant to speed up searches on directories that are
> commonly used to store and get info.
>
> So if we have everything indexed - system as well, then would it not be
> tons
> of info in the index file and searches going on for a while
>
> I'm guessing that you dont mean entire system but only certain folders or
> am
> i missing something
>
> "Adam" wrote:
>
>> Your best bet is to simply index the entire system, then all of your
>> searches
>> will be much faster. It'll take a while but it's a good investment in
>> your
>> time if you don't plan on wiping the partition any time soon.
>>
>> "blueey" wrote:
>>
>> > Searching on non indexed folders can be painfull. Even more more
>> > painfull
>> > when you have to retreive the same results again - And it does the
>> > search all
>> > over again.
>> >
>> > I did a search I windows explorere that took a few minutes, then
>> > browsed
>> > another folder to look at something , then hit the back button and it
>> > did the
>> > search all over again. Cant vista not tell if the file system has been
>> > changed and only then repeat a search for these kid of cases?
>> >
>> > Regards