They probably haven't found an answer either.

If someone had an answer they would have shared the information.


Dima wrote:
> Why don't they reply then?
> "Tom Ferguson" <tom.newsgroups******.com> wrote in message
> news:%23pbg8bOtIHA.3804@TK2MSFTNGP02.phx.gbl...
>> I am sure there are many who know how to "fix it", at least, in
>> principle. And many of them are at Microsoft. <g>
>>
>> Without going into the details of search theory or methods of
>> implementation: It could well be that nothing is actually broken so
>> does not need fixing in the strict sense. Possibly, the search
>> algorithms are performing exactly as designed. However, it also might
>> be true that they could be better implemented. For example, they could
>> be recoded into assembly or direct machine code-seldom done now-but
>> that's a topic for a different place and time. As one example of a
>> fast search-isoHunt, a Torrent search engine, is very rapid
>> considering the vast quantity of data indexed however it retunes a
>> quantity of false positives.
>>
>> In designing any program, there are many trade-offs. All of them
>> affect the search speed. E.g. Do you do a full, all storage devices
>> search or limit it to a particular set of locations (Vista actually
>> allows the user to modify to search entire index or just user files).
>> How highly do you value reliability (same results on repeated searches
>> of the same data), accuracy/fuzziness (result matches target/result is
>> a near match), &c. But Here I am probably not saying anything you
>> don't know.
>>
>> In short, if it's not too late for that, we can be certain that these
>> are matters that are routinely reviewed as development goes forward as
>> halting and retrograde as that motion sometimes appears.
>> --
>>
>> Tom
>> MSMVP 1998-2007
>>
>>
>> "Dima" <kopn@bk.ruDelete> wrote in message
>> news:OsthwNGtIHA.5268@TK2MSFTNGP06.phx.gbl...
>>> No, I have not find any new information. It's strange that nobody
>>> knows a resolution to the slow search in Vista!
>>> "R. C. White" <rc@grandecom.net> wrote in message
>>> news:C9056DE7-49E1-4F39-A329-68465C4CB203@microsoft.com...
>>>> Hi, Dima.
>>>>
>>>> Is there an echo in here?
>>>>
>>>> This sounds like the discussion we had here a week or two ago. Yes,
>>>> here it is: started by you on 4/28/08, Subject: Why does Windows
>>>> Vista x64 search so long? Like this current post, it was
>>>> cross-posted to 3 NGs; that thread has 9 posts, of which 5 were from
>>>> you. One is from me, one from Tony Sperling and 2 from Colin
>>>> Barnhorst.
>>>>
>>>> The bulk of your current post is a cut-n-pasted direct quote from my
>>>> post of 4/28/08 in that other thread. I don't mind your using my
>>>> description of the problem, but whenever you "borrow" text from
>>>> somewhere, common courtesy (and Netiquette) requires that you
>>>> identify the source.
>>>>
>>>> Have you found new information about this problem, Dima? Or are you
>>>> just asking the same question again?
>>>>
>>>> RC
>>>> --
>>>> R. C. White, CPA
>>>> San Marcos, TX
>>>> rc@grandecom.net
>>>> Microsoft Windows MVP
>>>> (Running Windows Live Mail 2008 in Vista Ultimate x64 SP1)
>>>>
>>>> "Dima" <kopn@bk.ruDelete> wrote in message
>>>> news:#uU#J3ssIHA.4544@TK2MSFTNGP04.phx.gbl...
>>>>> Hello!
>>>>> Why does Windows Vista x64 search so long, especially when the
>>>>> progress in the bar is at the end and the ring is rolling (a
>>>>> replacement for the sand glass)?
>>>>> When a search is not "nearly instantaneous" it takes nearly
>>>>> forever. That is, when you ask for an Advanced Search of Computer,
>>>>> the bar first goes half-way across fairly quickly. Then it goes
>>>>> more slowly to about 3/4 of the way, appearing to redraw the bar
>>>>> every second or so, then more slowly still to 7/8, etc., getting
>>>>> closer to the end with each redraw - but never quite reaching the
>>>>> end. I watch hopefully as it gets to the little down-pointing
>>>>> triangle, thinking that it will give up when it gets there and
>>>>> report that it can't find what it's searching for. But it doesn't.
>>>>> It keeps creeping further, past the vertical separator at the end
>>>>> of the Address Bar, and then at a maddeningly slow pace across the
>>>>> red "X" and... hours later, the green bar is still being redrawn
>>>>> and it STILL hasn't got to the end.
>>>>> Windows XP Pro on the same computer (but on another HDD) searches
>>>>> for the same files (on all HDDs) five times faster.
>>>>> Sincerely,
>>>>> Dima
>>>>
>>>
>>
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