Jeff Key – Windows Desktop Search experiences

17May/052

Jeff Key – Windows Desktop Search experiences

At home: It refuses to install on the x64 flavor of Windows. Nice.

At work: Used it on Win2003 for approx two hours, then it crashed and greeted me with this when I restarted it:

Well, to quote the XBox development team, “backwards compatibility is HARD”. (to paraphrase the Playstation development team and Yoda, “There is no hard, only do or do not”)

I guess forwards compatibility is hard too. Looks like “It works on MY machine” is the mantra of the Desktop Search developer too. Jeff do you work for MSN?

I haven’t installed the MSN flavored desktop search, mainly because I know it’s going to hijack my home page, tool bar, search engine, and probably change my long distance provider as well. But I have been looking for a desktop search tool since I uninstalled Google DS.(took up too much RAM while running). Copernic was a hog too.

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http://blogs.msdn.com/jonathanh Jonathan Hardwick

Actually, the latest version lets you set your search engine to whatever you want – and changing your home page and tool bar are installation options, of course. But long distance providers… hmmm… we can probably monetize that somehow…
Scott

Ah-ha, interesting Jonathan. Yes, it did let me uncheck the box. Hooray! It’s interesting that it includes “.cs” as one of the extensions to index as text, but not .aspx/mx/cx or .vb. More Visual Basic hate from Redmond? Poor VB. It’s like the middle child, mommy and daddy don’t pay attention to it.

It does index, by default, .vbs files. Which when coupled with the “index email attachments” option seems like a bad idea. I don’t have enough .vbs files on my system to worry about so I’ll probably remove that from my approved list just in case my virus scanner isn’t on the ball.
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