And I thought it was just me.

If you right click on a disk drive Icon there's another form of indexing
going on, seems like they really didn't want you to turn it off, but
unless you search constantly what's the point? If you search say once a
week for something you lost it takes 5 minutes with XP, with Vista the
****ed indexing takes weeks. That adds up to an awful lot of 5 minute
sessions.

It's even more ridiculous when the resulting search can't find anything :)


Wala Wala wrote:
> On Sun, 16 Sep 2007 14:16:04 -0700, nlreeves
> <nlreeves@discussions.microsoft.com> wrote:
>
>> You are not the only one.
> Vista search tool is BLIND. I'm looking at a file which I had to
> search manually, and still vista cannot find it.
> All this hoopla about indexing and disk thrashing that I had to
> endure for months was all in vain.
> Vista Search is totally worthless.
>
>> I have been extremely frustrated with the new, "improved" search tool. I
>> routinely search for dates and times files were accessed, created, or
>> modified. The search for "accessed" no longer exists, as near as I can tell.
>> What I am searching for, often, is creation, access, or modification of
>> system files. There have been numerous times when I use the Advanced Search
>> capabilities to search everything (including hidden and system files) , it
>> takes forever (since much of that stuff is not indexed) and comes up blank.
>> I take a look manually (after jumping through all sorts of hoops to be
>> granted access to even look at my own files), and easily find a dozen files
>> that fit the search criteria.
>>
>> It may be better at searching within files (which the old search tool only
>> pretended to be able to do), but is is a shadow of its former self with
>> respect to the functions I routinely used it to perform.
>>
>> Nancy
>>
>> "JethroUK©" wrote:
>>
>>> Despite Vista search being hailed (by Microsoft) as 'a main feature', Vista
>>> search has bugs - such that some things it simply can not find
>>>
>>> A search system that can not find 'some' things is as useless as one that
>>> can not find 'any' things
>>>
>>> Are Microsoft working around the clock to fix it? Will it be fixed by
>>> Monday? Am I the only person that thinks this renders the whole O/S close to
>>> scrap?
>>>
>>>