I did try unsuccessfully to disable Google Desktop indexing. And yeah, 
there is an option to switch on/off shares but its very existence is a 
worry, so yeah "Off with its head".
As far as Microsoft goes, the next stage is obviously to define sharing 
(device and network access) at the logical (metadata) level that 
requires a "player" (presumably Microsoft's) to support it.
At the very least a media "player" becomes an essential component  in 
this worldview, but does anyone know how open is this model?

Stig Manning wrote:
> Hi Keith,
>
> Don't want to highjack your thread, but we were having some problems 
> with a windows share server running slowly at work, including high 
> network load. We discovered that a computer on the network was running 
> Google desktop and whenever the screen-saver was running it was indexing 
> ALL the network shares it knew about - and generating serious network 
> traffic and CPU load on both the server and client.
>
> Needless to say we don't allow Google desktop on any machines here anymore!
>
> Regards,
> Stig
>
> Keith Allpress wrote, on 9/06/2009 9:31 AM:
>   
>> I was getting massive CPU load during idle time and straight away was 
>> able to identify that Google desktop had a rundll that vainly was trying 
>> to index Microsofts entangled Vista rubbish folders.
>> Uninstalling that proved it
>>     
>> ------------------------------------------------------------------------
>>
>>
>> No virus found in this incoming message.
>> Checked by AVG - www.avg.com 
>> Version: 8.5.339 / Virus Database: 270.12.55/2160 - Release Date: 06/07/09 
>> 05:53:00
>>
>>     


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