Topic: Searching (Win XP and 2000)

[Monty]

Ever heard of the indexing service?

well read this:

http://www.theinquirer.net/?article=20214

Then this:

http://msdn.microsoft.com/library/default.asp?url=/library/en-us/indexsrv/html/ixqlang_2437.asp

and if you have the indexing service switched on... try some of the queries.

Zooooooooom!

Ultra quick.

A quote from the above article that had me in stitches:

Why? In a smack-your-forehead-and-say-'Doh!' piece of software design, the standard Windows search feature doesn't automatically send your search terms to the indexing service, it just carries on searching in the same old way, by examining every single file on the disk. And woe betide WinXP users if it stumbles across a compressed ZIP file while searching, because your PC will grind to a halt while it decompresses the file to peek inside.

To actually use Indexing Services as it was originally intended, you need to utter a few magic words, which Microsoft has chosen to keep secret from the common user.

has anyone here ever used it before i wonder?