Comments on: Windows Search Indexer Status Gadget

By: Marc F

Marc F — Wed, 23 Jul 2008 08:05:26 +0000

Also, I see another version of the gadget that has a search box (http://brandonlive.com/2007/01/04/building-a-windows-powertoy). Is there any chance this wil be made available to the public? It looks great and I would love to have it. I’ve emailed you a few times in the past but got no reply

Thanks and regards,
Marc

By: Marc F

Marc F — Wed, 23 Jul 2008 07:59:16 +0000

Brandon, excellent gadget, I love it! Amy chance of adding a button to launch the Search for files window? Thsi would make it the gadget more convient. Thanks again for creating this.

Marc

By: matthew

matthew — Fri, 18 Jul 2008 13:12:51 +0000

I have WS4 installed on two laptops. The first indexed 80,000 records in about a day. The second has been working for a week and only indexed 30,000 records. Is there a way to determine the performance problem and which files have been indexed and which are not. Any suggestion about the slow computer which is actually the newer machine and has a dual processeor? I have uninstalled and reinstalled once.

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By: Brandon

Brandon — Sat, 12 Apr 2008 18:28:04 +0000

Anon – I updated it yesterday to work on all systems, and others have reported it works fine for them. Have you tried it since then?

By: Anon

Anon — Sat, 12 Apr 2008 15:11:12 +0000

gadget works only with en-us systems…

By: Janson

Janson — Fri, 11 Apr 2008 11:57:54 +0000

Hi Brandon,

Great tool, and I’m glad its finally seen the light of day. I called out your tools and addtional efforts you make in a recent beta event with MS. This tool is a great ‘power tool’ and it would be cool to see some others to give back to Vista users some of the rich functionality that exists in XP WDS. A samll question what does the number in brackets indicate when the index is updating? Items indexed per second????

Cheers

Janson

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By: Greg

Greg — Thu, 10 Apr 2008 17:35:08 +0000

I’m just moving the file from one location on the system drive (NTFS) to another.

In general, I don’t install beta or preview releases of anything. However, as soon as WS4 is officially released, I will be sure to try it.

By: Brandon

Brandon — Thu, 10 Apr 2008 17:27:17 +0000

Greg – as soon as you delete or move a file, the old entry should be removed from the index. It sounds like you’re hitting a bug, as that is not the normal behavior. One option would be to install the WS4 Preview release and see if it fixes the problem for you.

What kind of drive are you moving the file from? Is it NTFS? FAT32? A network location?

By: Greg

Greg — Thu, 10 Apr 2008 17:19:04 +0000

This is more a question about the indexing process itself rather than your status gadget. In Vista SP1, let’s say I move a file that has been indexed and then wait until the file is again indexed in its new location. If I then perform a search, the file turns up twice in the search results, once in its new location and once in its old location. From the search results table, if I try to open the “old” file I get an error saying the file cannot be found. This behavior has persisted for over a week.

Doesn’t the indexer periodically check its contents for dead links and remove these from the index? Shouldn’t an attempt to open a search result that results in a file not found error trigger the indexer to immediately remove this dead link from the index?

By: Artie Kay

Artie Kay — Thu, 10 Apr 2008 04:19:32 +0000

Schweet!

Thanks Brandon!

By: Eric

Eric — Thu, 10 Apr 2008 03:34:50 +0000

Hey Brandon, nice gadget. That reminds me to ask you something about indexing. Will Windows Search 4 implement the ReindexMatchingURLs method of ISearchCatalogManager? It’s a huge headache needing to rebuild the entire index when all I want to do is reindex a specific file-type.