I never have understood why search in Windows has progressively gotten more feeble with every new upgrade to the operating system. WinXP is just atrocious. I can't figure out what the indexing service is for since it doesn't seem to speed up searches and seems to periodically go berserk while it's indexing and bogs your computer down. I have 4 120 GB hard drives on my main system and you ought to see how long it takes if I let it search all the hard drives.
X1 uses indexing too ( I think that's how it displays results as you type) but they must be a little better at designing the indexing service than MS. It also does web searches. Maybe that is why it's looking for internet access. I just downloaded it. Going to give it try. Ben Moore ----- Original Message ----- From: "[EMAIL PROTECTED]" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> To: <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Sent: Saturday, September 27, 2003 8:37 AM Subject: PCWorks: XP's native search problem fixed > Group, on more than on occasion I've posted to this list about > XP's search problem, and if anyone knew how to fix it. Some > may have never noticed it, but with 40k+ of small files and > hundreds of folders I created it can be time consuming to find > a specific file. For some reason, when you search for a file > on XP Pro, (I don't know if "Home" is that was as well) it can > take 10 minutes or more to find anything! This is with the > indexing service on, or off. On '98 it was almost instant. > Several replied saying they noticed it as well but could not > find a fix for it. > > A few days ago I saw the problem was wide spread enough for a > computer show on TechTV to mention it. They recommended a > program called X1 which is almost a miracle. http://www.x1.com > I'm not sure how it can do it, but it will search "on the fly" > for anything and will find it INSTANTLY. As you type, it will > actually start looking for the letters you are typing. So, if > you search for "search" for example and type s-e, it is already > displaying all files with "se" in them. By the time you've > fully typed "search" the results are already displayed. You > can right click the resultant files and "locate on disk", and > in the right area there is preview pane which tells you all > about the file. It can also search your email, history, > favorites, or the web. > > It is actually free, but contrary to what they say, it is NOT > full featured and IS a demo. After 30 days the right preview > pane will no longer work. This should not be a problem since > you can still right click the files found and see their > properties by going to "locate on disk" and getting the > properties the regular way. ============= PCWorks Mailing List ================= Don't see your post? Check our posting guidelines & make sure you've followed proper posting procedures, http://pcworkers.com/rules.htm Contact list owner <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Unsubscribing and other changes: http://pcworkers.com =====================================================
