Wednesday, July 02, 2008

Vista: Search can be tricky

One of the most talked about features of Vista is its search capability. You can search from search bar on start menu, or you can search from Windows Explorer search box. But you can be tricked by search results. I was trying to search a customUI.xsd file that I pretty sure exist on my machine, but search bar on start menu said no.




I was a little taken aback. So I went to Windows Explorer and navigated to the directory where I believe the file exists, and did a search right there using Windows Explorer search box, Voila! This time search finds it, as shown in the picture below:








So the trick is to add the more locations to Vista search indexer. To add more locations, in Windows Explorer, type something random in search box to turn on the Search Tools option and set the index locations from there, as shown in picture below:

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