Windows Desktop Search

[kleinma]

ok, my desktop search is reporting some crazy number of files yet to be indexed...

Now I am confident I don't have 94 million files on my PC, but WDS seems to think I do...

The number of items indexed has not changed since this morning, and the number of items to index keeps going up

[timeshifter]

Windows Desktop Search... a required piece of the Outlook Instant Search feature. I tried it and found that it took up space in my taskbar (which I could fix), but it also spent waaaaay too much time indexing everything, and it didn't back down when I was doing something else. And now that I have a regular issue with the process tvtsched.exe, which is a ThinkPad utility that I can't figure out how to disable and regularly eats up ALL of one of my cores, I uninstalled the search pretty quickly. Outlook's normal search works fine for me, and my desktop rarely has more than 7 useful items at a time... lots of junk, but I know where what I need is.

[mendhak]

ok, my desktop search is reporting some crazy number of files yet to be indexed...

Now I am confident I don't have 94 million files on my PC, but WDS seems to think I do...

The number of items indexed has not changed since this morning, and the number of items to index keeps going up

Could be that benign .vbs script that keeps propagating itself

[Bonker Gudd]

Frog. Seeker of Clulg.

[kleinma]

I ended up rebuilding the index, which I can let it do overnight, and it looks so far like it is back on track working again.

@timeshifter - I have a few 100 thousand emails in outlook, so the normal search feature takes way too long when I need to find that email some customer is talking about from 4 years ago. As far as the file system, I am always looking up files using desktop search, it just makes things so much quicker and easier. Especially when I am tracking down a file to find all its locations on the drive. I set my indexer to index everything except my temp directories.

@mend

Is that the AllYourBaseAreBelongToMendhak.vbs in which you are referring to? It wont let me delete it in safe mode, says something about googoodolls.dll?!?

[RobDog888]

Really? I practically never use any of the search features in Windows. I have indexing turned off too in order to improve performance.

[timeshifter]

@timeshifter - I have a few 100 thousand emails in outlook, so the normal search feature takes way too long when I need to find that email some customer is talking about from 4 years ago.

I have a set of websites that generate 100,000 emails in four months... mostly errors from bots hitting pages with query strings that point to nonexistent items...