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Desktop Search on the Win7 Engineering blog
23 October 08 05:18 PM | Brandon Live!
About a week ago we posted an entry to the Windows 7 Engineering Team Blog about Windows Desktop Search, describing the motivation behind indexing files and what investments we’re making in that area of the system. It’s a good read so check...
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Indexer Status gadget updated
08 October 08 10:29 PM | Brandon Live!
I updated my Windows Search indexer gadget with a couple of fixes.  If you run the gadget, you may want to update in order to fix issues with the play and fast-forward (“index now”) buttons not properly reflecting the state of the indexer back-off...
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Windows Search 4 vs Vista built-in search
07 June 08 11:32 PM | Brandon Live!
When I first posted about the WS4 release on Neowin a few members had a response that I had never expected. Some examples: Windam - I wonder why this would be released for Vista since search is already a well integrated feature to begin with. Is it just...
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Windows Search 4.0 released!
03 June 08 05:16 PM | Brandon Live!
Windows Search 4.0 was released this afternoon.  This release focuses on performance and reliability improvements.  Here are some highlights: Faster queries, often several times faster Faster indexing / reduced resource usage Support for EFS...
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Getting the shell to run an application for you - Part 2: How
27 April 08 05:07 AM | Brandon Live!
The key to getting Explorer to do your dirty work lies in the IShellDispatch2 interface.  Particular, the ShellExecute method.  IShellDispatch2 is one of the shell automation objects used to support scripting languages.  However, that doesn’t...
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Getting the shell to run an application for you - Part 1: Why
26 April 08 08:39 PM | Brandon Live!
Some people seem to think that calling ShellExecute or ShellExecuteEx and passing the path to an executable will have the effect of telling the shell to launch an application for you. However, that’s not quite what happens. These functions simply...
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Remote Search in Windows Search 4.0
29 March 08 07:56 PM | Brandon Live!
Following up on the Windows Search 4.0 Preview release, I will be writing several posts about some of the new features and changes enabled by this release.  One such feature, and this first one I will dive into here, is the capability to remotely...
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Windows Search 4.0 Preview release
27 March 08 09:21 PM | Brandon Live!
Today we made available the WS 4.0 preview release for Windows XP, Vista, and Server 2003/2008. You can read details about WS 4.0 at the following sites: Vista Team Blog - Announcing the Windows Search 4.0 Preview KB Article describing Windows Search...
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FAQ: How do I disable indexing for most file extensions?
16 March 08 06:54 PM | Brandon Live!
The answer is simple:  you shouldn’t. I’ve been e-mailed this question a couple times now, and seen it on forums more times than that.  Sometimes the person asking the question says something like, “I only want to index my...
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FAQ: Office 2007 documents, kind:document, and 64-bit Windows
29 November 07 04:54 PM | Brandon Live!
If you’re running a 64-bit version of Windows Vista, or a 64-bit version of WDS 3.x on Windows XP/2003, you may notice that the new Office 2007 document formats (.docx, .xlsx, etc) don’t show up when you search using the “Documents”...
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