![]() Speaking of advanced options, MSN Search also has an easily accessible index for selecting what you want to index (someone posted a comment to my previous blog posting explaining that GDS has a way - that in my short usage I didn't come across - to specify what you want to exclude, which would require more work for me).Īnother reader pointed out that this month's issue of PC Magazine has a comparative review of desktop search engines that you can read on-line at There's no reason for Microsoft and Google to exclude advanced options like that. MSN Search's documentation states that it will index only the first 1 MB of documents, which is annoying, but most (not all) of mine are smaller than that. Anyway, on my desktop system it said for hours that it had indexed 16575 items with 0 left to index - when a search for text I knew to be in e-mails failed, indicating that it hadn't indexed Outlook, yet.ĭesktop searches with MSN Search are working great, though, and its finding the text within the power point documents that GDS couldn't. Well, I was going to tell you the current status of the indexing on my laptop, where I installed MSN Search this morning, but it looks like they've got a bug in their context menu: it appears, but is only partially drawn and I can't interact with it. I expected to find it on the context menu associated with the deskbar search window that you can have it display in the task bar, but it’s only accessible through the context menu of its tray icon. Even finding MSN Desktop Search's status window is difficult. My experiences with it have been a little better, though Google did a much better job of telling me where it was during the initial indexing process. Picking up on my desktop search testing, shortly after I learned that Google Desktop Search (GDS) only does partial document indexing I uninstalled it and decided to give Microsoft a chance by installing MSN Desktop Search, which is also in beta. The precon is a lot of fun with a lot of practical information and we highlight some of the advanced uses of a number of Sysinternals tools, including Process Explorer, Filemon and Regmon. If you're going to TechEd you might want to check out Dave Solomon (my coauthor on Windows Internals and Inside Windows 2000) and me copresenting a preconference tutorial on advanced Windows troubleshooting. In Orlando, where I'll be delivering a breakout session that discusses rootkits, "Understanding and Fighting Malware: Viruses, Spyware, and Rootkits". The June issue of Windows IT Pro Magazine is going to result in a nice synergy for me because it will be released at Its home page gives a brief description of rootkits. , a tool that Bryce and I recently released that tries to detect them. If you’re not familiar with rootkits check out ![]() I haven't blogged the last couple of days because I both wanted my desktop search testing to progress before reporting back, and because I've just finished an article on rootkits for Windows IT Pro Magazine's June issue. First published on TechNet on Mar 16, 2005
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