Vista - Re: Permanently change Search agent?

02-02-2008

On Feb 1, 6:40 pm, "Fred B." <newsgroups.NoS...@xxxxxx> wrote:

Quote:

> Google took Microsoft to court over the "search" options thing months ago.
> If I recall, Microsoft agreed to make options to choose an engine
> available with SP1 which is due to be released shortly.
>
> In the meantime I've been using Google Desktop Search from the taskbar.
> Works far better than Vista's generic thing.

Well it would HAVE to work better than 'Vista's Generic Thing',
wouldn't it?'

This is a search I performed today. I asked it to search in a folder
on my I: drive (circled)
http://www.emopanda.com/tmp/vista_search.jpg
All those other circles? Read "C:/".

It's not even searching the designated area FIRST, the responses I
wanted were halfway down, in no particular order at all. About 1/3 of
the files returned NO LONGER EXISTED, since I'd moved them off my
desktop since they were indexed, but they still came up as search
results at the old location.
I did a search later that came up with NO results on the requested
drive, despite files with that name existing there.

Microsoft released an operating system with no functioning search
capability. How is that... even LEGAL?

-Derik

02-02-2008	#1 (permalink)
regenesis0 n/a posts	Re: Permanently change Search agent? On Feb 1, 6:40 pm, "Fred B." <newsgroups.NoS...@xxxxxx> wrote: Quote: > Google took Microsoft to court over the "search" options thing months ago. > If I recall, Microsoft agreed to make options to choose an engine > available with SP1 which is due to be released shortly. > > In the meantime I've been using Google Desktop Search from the taskbar. > Works far better than Vista's generic thing. Well it would HAVE to work better than 'Vista's Generic Thing', wouldn't it?' This is a search I performed today. I asked it to search in a folder on my I: drive (circled) http://www.emopanda.com/tmp/vista_search.jpg All those other circles? Read "C:/". It's not even searching the designated area FIRST, the responses I wanted were halfway down, in no particular order at all. About 1/3 of the files returned NO LONGER EXISTED, since I'd moved them off my desktop since they were indexed, but they still came up as search results at the old location. I did a search later that came up with NO results on the requested drive, despite files with that name existing there. Microsoft released an operating system with no functioning search capability. How is that... even LEGAL? -Derik
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