You do realize that: 1) The OP's point was that search needed a new _3rd_party_ filter to search a proprietary non-text file format, right? You can't expect to know about every current and future file format, however MS has provided a framework to plug search filters in to the engine to accommodate this.
2) Windows default search looks at file system meta data, however it allows you to examine file contents. -sc > -----Original Message----- > From: Charlie Kaiser [mailto:[email protected]] > Sent: Thursday, September 17, 2009 9:31 AM > To: NT System Admin Issues > Subject: RE: Window 7 64-bit and Indexing PDF files > > <rant> > Don't get me started on windows' so-called "search". If I want to > search, I > want the search engine to search ALL files. Try searching for a string > through ASP files with the 2003/2008 search engine. > If I want to filter my searches, I'll filter them thank you very much. > I > understand their "user only needs to know about these things" > mentality, but > on a server? At least give me an admin search that looks at every > file... > Grrr..... > </rant> > > *********************** > Charlie Kaiser > [email protected] > Kingman, AZ > *********************** > > > -----Original Message----- > > From: Bryan Garmon [mailto:[email protected]] > > Sent: Thursday, September 17, 2009 6:11 AM > > To: NT System Admin Issues > > Subject: Window 7 64-bit and Indexing PDF files > > > > I couldn't figure out why Windows 7's search feature was not > > indexing the context of PDF files - which make up a large > > portion of my data. A little digging revealed an error > > message in the Indexing Options Control Panel that suggested > > that the registered IFilter for PDF was not found. A bit more > > digging revealed that for 64-bit systems you have to install > > Adobe's newest IFilter product for this feature to work. > > > > Here's a link to the download. > > > > http://www.adobe.com/support/downloads/detail.jsp?ftpID=4025 > > > > ~ Finally, powerful endpoint security that ISN'T a resource > > hog! ~ ~ > > <http://www.sunbeltsoftware.com/Business/VIPRE-Enterprise/> ~ > > > ~ Finally, powerful endpoint security that ISN'T a resource hog! ~ > ~ <http://www.sunbeltsoftware.com/Business/VIPRE-Enterprise/> ~ ~ Finally, powerful endpoint security that ISN'T a resource hog! ~ ~ <http://www.sunbeltsoftware.com/Business/VIPRE-Enterprise/> ~
