Let's say you want to optimize your system by only indexing certain data. For example, a reader recently e-mailed me and said "I only want to index my media files." Seems like a valid choice. At first glance, it might seem like you could achieve this by telling Windows to ...
PKEY_Identity (or "System.Identity") is used to store the identity GUID associated with an Outlook Express or Windows Mail (Vista) account.
Tom Laird-McConnell, who used to be my boss until a few months ago, wrote one of his extremely rare blog posts last week on this subject. To celebrate the occassion, ...
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" filter in the search UI, or the kind:document Advanced ...
If you have installed WDS on Windows XP / 2003 and wish to uninstall it, read the instructions below. Also, please post a comment with your reason for uninstalling - user feedback is very important to all of us.
Standard answer:
Click on the Start button
Click "Control Panel"
Click "Add / Remove Programs"
Check the "Show Updates" box
Look ...
The Indexer
At its core, the Windows Search indexer doesn't really know anything about files, e-mails, or anything like that. In fact, all it really knows is how to do the following things:
Index contents and metadata associated with a URL and store it in a row.
Retrieve rows that match a specific query.
Shape the results in ...
The three processes used by the Windows Search service are SearchIndexer.exe, SearchProtocolHost.exe, and SearchFilterHost.exe. Sometimes you may even see multiple instances of the latter two running simultaneously (especially if multiple users are logged in).
So why are they divided up in this way? To find out, let's look at ...
Sometimes index corruption or other problems with Windows Search cannot be fixed by the "Rebuild Index" option in the control panel. One troubleshooting option you can try is to tell the indexer to reset the indexer to its out-of-the-box default setup.
For WDS 3.0 on Windows XP or Windows Vista:
Open Regedit.exe
Expand the HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE ...
WDS 3.0 and Windows Vista can index uncached Exchange mailboxes, but this functionality is disabled by default. It needs to be enabled via group policy.
If you're not in a group-policy managed environment (or your administrator does not set this setting), you can enable it by creating a DWORD registry key in:
HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE\SOFTWARE\Policies\Microsoft\Windows\Windows ...
