Windows Search 4 for XP: total crap

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I had to uninstall this software after less than a day mainly for two reasons:



1. It wouldn't actually snooze. Watching it via process explorer it was

taking 1-3% CPU and doing lots of disk reads/writes. Not acceptable.

2. It couldn't deal with the size of my mailbox (30k items or so). But why

else would I need search? Lots of mails didn't show up in returns, even

though it said it was done indexing.

3. The quick view from the search box was not ranked based on star ratings,

you had to open up the full window and then sort the results. That's just

plain stupid.

4. There is no way to give feedback! There is no feedback button on the

product page. Chances are this message will never reach the right people.



You guys at MS should really think hard about pulling yourselves together,

and a good start would be to give people real ways to send feedback.
 
"cs" wrote in message

news:11B9F42B-1007-4D81-842E-91643BBD5F4D@microsoft.com...

> I had to uninstall this software after less than a day mainly for two

> reasons:

>

> 1. It wouldn't actually snooze. Watching it via process explorer it was

> taking 1-3% CPU and doing lots of disk reads/writes. Not acceptable.

> 2. It couldn't deal with the size of my mailbox (30k items or so). But why

> else would I need search? Lots of mails didn't show up in returns, even

> though it said it was done indexing.

> 3. The quick view from the search box was not ranked based on star

> ratings,

> you had to open up the full window and then sort the results. That's just

> plain stupid.

> 4. There is no way to give feedback! There is no feedback button on the

> product page. Chances are this message will never reach the right people.

>

> You guys at MS should really think hard about pulling yourselves together,

> and a good start would be to give people real ways to send feedback.



Very well spoken, but no one here works for Microsoft, MORON!

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"Don't pick a fight with an old man.

If he is too old to fight, he'll just kill you."
 
You are correct in that, Microsoft won't read this, in fact XP is on the way

out, so dont expect any improvements at this late date. Try UGH (VISTA) or W7

for a newer Operating system.

This are is not visited by microsoft, it's just other users helping other

users.



"cs" wrote:



> I had to uninstall this software after less than a day mainly for two reasons:

>

> 1. It wouldn't actually snooze. Watching it via process explorer it was

> taking 1-3% CPU and doing lots of disk reads/writes. Not acceptable.

> 2. It couldn't deal with the size of my mailbox (30k items or so). But why

> else would I need search? Lots of mails didn't show up in returns, even

> though it said it was done indexing.

> 3. The quick view from the search box was not ranked based on star ratings,

> you had to open up the full window and then sort the results. That's just

> plain stupid.

> 4. There is no way to give feedback! There is no feedback button on the

> product page. Chances are this message will never reach the right people.

>

> You guys at MS should really think hard about pulling yourselves together,

> and a good start would be to give people real ways to send feedback.
 
Try copernic



Free version works fine for me.

If you have external drives with back up on, I would not recommend having

many back up copies on any permanently attached external drive, as their

indexing doesn't seem to be preventable on the free version at least, and it

can take a long time.



S



"cs" wrote in message

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>I had to uninstall this software after less than a day mainly for two

>reasons:

>

> 1. It wouldn't actually snooze. Watching it via process explorer it was

> taking 1-3% CPU and doing lots of disk reads/writes. Not acceptable.

> 2. It couldn't deal with the size of my mailbox (30k items or so). But why

> else would I need search? Lots of mails didn't show up in returns, even

> though it said it was done indexing.

> 3. The quick view from the search box was not ranked based on star

> ratings,

> you had to open up the full window and then sort the results. That's just

> plain stupid.

> 4. There is no way to give feedback! There is no feedback button on the

> product page. Chances are this message will never reach the right people.

>

> You guys at MS should really think hard about pulling yourselves together,

> and a good start would be to give people real ways to send feedback.
 
In news:11B9F42B-1007-4D81-842E-91643BBD5F4D@microsoft.com,

cs typed:

> I had to uninstall this software after less than a day

> mainly for two reasons:

>

> 1. It wouldn't actually snooze. Watching it via process

> explorer it was taking 1-3% CPU and doing lots of disk

> reads/writes. Not acceptable.



No, it's not, I"m pretty sure. You do realize that figure is

typical for an idle system, right? That's a negligible amount

of cpu occupation.



> 2. It couldn't deal with the size of my mailbox (30k items

> or so). But why else would I need search? Lots of mails

> didn't show up in returns, even though it said it was done

> indexing.



You have 30 THOUSAND mails in your mailbox? Woof! Before you

do anything else you need to pare that down to a reasonable

size! No wonder you need SEARCH! Categorize and arrange

should be your first priority here, IMO!

I think I'm done here; that's not worth even trying to

repair until things be straightened out.



> 3. The quick view from the search box was not ranked based

> on star ratings, you had to open up the full window and

> then sort the results. That's just plain stupid.



And you have actually rated 30 THOUSAND "items"?. Wow.





> 4. There is no way to give feedback! There is no feedback

> button on the product page. Chances are this message will

> never reach the right people.



Of course there is a way to give feedback. You need to

actually read what's offered to you sometimes though.



>

> You guys at MS should really think hard about pulling

> yourselves together, and a good start would be to give

> people real ways to send feedback.



There are no "guys at MS" here; just users. Like I said, you

have to read sometimes.
 
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