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Old 10-28-2007, 01:10 PM
Andre Da Costa[ActiveWin]
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Re: Vista Search is MUCH SLOWER than Desktop Search of MSN or Google

Also try configuring the Indexing Options in Control Panel, maybe its
indexing just a bit too much. :P
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"rtk" <notta@chance.com> wrote in message
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> I'm indexing over 200 thousand items and my results are nearly
> instantaneous, just for a comparison.
>
> Perhaps you've installed an incompatible filter?
>
> rtk
>
> "Arend" <Arend@discussions.microsoft.com> wrote in message
> news:605E021A-A4B4-4775-9D25-0859AD58CB42@microsoft.com...[color=green]
>> You are wrong. Vista search is not MUCH SLOWER!!! It is VERY VERY MUCH
>> SLOWER!! And when eventually the results (email) do show up, I get them
>> twice!!!! This happens when you move an incoming message to a folder. The
>> "vista search" finds the email in the inbox (which does not exist there
>> anymore, because you have moved it) plus in the folder you moved it to.
>> To
>> avoid this you need to rebuild the index every day before you go to
>> bed!!!!!
>>
>> This was a problem that I encountered in January that I bought the vista.
>> I
>> went back to XP and I thought that 10 months later this problem would
>> have
>> been resolved. I was wrong!!! This means I will reinstall XP again.
>>
>> The WDS for XP it is 1000000 times better and I would very much like to
>> ask
>> those who developed the instant (ha ha ha) search in vista what did they
>> really have in mind????
>> Not only was WDS for XP way faster but you could easily isolate different
>> results (contacts - Appointments - notes - etc) with just one click!!!!!
>>
>> Can someone with access to Microsoft's developers ask this for me? And
>> also
>> ask them to make the wds for xp also possible to be installed in vista???
>>
>> Here in Greece we say: "vista is svista" and svista means "uninstall
>> it"!!!!!!!!
>>
>> Unfortunately you figure this out after the money you spend to buy it!!!
>> (along with the money you spend to upgrade your hardware and software
>> because
>> mostly nothing works with it)
>>
>> Christos
>>
>>
>> "SearchCrazy" wrote:
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>>>
>>> Microsoft should have a search technology in Vista that is better than
>>> MSN
>>> Desktop Search or at least equivelant!!. Unfortunately, MSN Desktop
>>> Search
>>> was way better than Vista Search in all aspects: performance, accuracy,
>>> showing results, etc. I don't know what is wrong with the development
>>> team!
>>> It seems to me they are using a totally different search technology than
>>> the
>>> great MSN Desktop Search technology! Why don't they just use the same
>>> technology rather than starting over from the scratch?! I don't know..
>>>
>>> The way I used to browse search results under MSN Desktop Search was
>>> MUCH
>>> BETTER than the search results window in Vista. Additionally, Vista
>>> Search is
>>> EXTREMELY SLOW compared to MSN Desktop Search! (In many cases searching
>>> for
>>> documents manually is much faster!!!).
>>>
>>> The worst part is the incompatibility between MSN Desktop Search and
>>> Vista!
>>> It just does not install on Vista. So, you've got two options only: the
>>> very
>>> slow Vista Search or the un-integrated but VERY FAST Google Desktop
>>> Search!
>>> Oh sorry, there is a third option: Go back to Windows XP and use MSN
>>> Desktop
>>> Search.
>>>
>>> As a VERY HEAVY MSN Desktop Search user, I AM VERY DISAPPOINTED with
>>> Vista
>>> Search. I know that many people will be stunned by Vista Search because
>>> most
>>> of them never used a desktop search technology! But I bet that Google
>>> Desktop
>>> users will continue using Google Desktop Search even if they upgrade to
>>> Vista. But MSN Desktop users (like me and you) will see themselves under
>>> very
>>> tough "search" situation: very slow Vista, un-integrated Google or back
>>> to XP!
>>>
>>> From this Discussion Group I AM ASKING WINDOWS VISTA TEAM to compare the
>>> performance of Vista Search to MSN Desktop Search or even to Google
>>> Desktop
>>> Search. Remember, In search, performance is EVERYTHING.You guys need to
>>> squeeze the performance to the maximum. You need to get VERY SMART
>>> algorithms
>>> to handle search! I know you can do it! But you MUST do it very fast
>>> because
>>> people will not wait forever!
>>>
>>> "henrik" wrote:
>>>
>>> > I really don't believe this, but when upgrading from XP with MSN
>>> > search to
>>> > Vista I get substantially slower search, with bad results;
>>> > - does not index network drives (although they are added in search-CP)
>>> > - very slow - you don't get instant results, but wait 20-60 seconds
>>> >
>>> > Henrik
>>> >
>>>
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