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I'm hoping someone can demystify my issue here. Scenario: - I have a file server running on Windows XP Pro we'll call it XPServer - I have two windows 7 Pro PC's, that we'll call 7Office and 7HTPC. It took me a bit to figure it out, but the windows 7 help file told me in order to call a shared...

Windows Search (and/or Outlook 2007 Instant Search) does not index emails from Outlook PST files Hi Gang....so I'm having a similar problem trying to get Windows Search to index my emails. I am currently running Windows 7 Pro 64-bit and Outlook 2007. Upgraded from Windows XP Pro (SP3) and...

Even after installing Adobes PDFiFilter64installer.zip and re-indexing PDF files are not properly indexed. Why has MS written OS's that have terrible search capabilities for over 10 years! I vote for Ubuntu! Shame on microcrap..... End of rant--------- In the meantime any one have any...

Look in the picture, I have a problem where no matter what i type in the search field nothing appears. It works for other user accounts but not mine. I have tried rebuilding the index, disable/then re-enable windows search and indexing services. I have also made sure in the start menu...

My Documents folder is on my D: When I add it to my library I lose the abilty to search it. If I remove it from the library I can add it to the index and all is fine. But I want it to be searchable whilst it's part of my library otherwise the Documents link on the start menu won't work Am I...

When I used the win explorer search the system has offered me an option to locate an index. I was searching an external disk. After choosing the option to locate the index the search has stopped working no matter what I did: I removed the index, rebuild the existing indexes, returned the...

My instant search into the start menu is not showing the results. As you can see in the print screens 1st Im going to show that I have TeamViewer into the start menu... Link Removed due to 404 Error Now Lets search for it: Link Removed due to 404 Error We got nothing... What about search...

I'm talking about the start button (orb) search built into the start menu - it's HORRIBLE! :confused: I just installed 7 the other day, and I immediately noticed the search is severely lacking when compared to Vista. One major thing that seems to be missing is searching the control panel...

Documents that I saved remained in the Wordpad recent documents for a couple of days, then disappeared, then a search found no trace of the documents. Indexing is on for the whole drive. They are not in any folders that I can find. And a perhaps related problem - the Library had labeled both...

Win7 takes a giant leap backward-- you can't index network drives! XP's desktop search did this fine. Googling shows Vista had a patch to fix this-- but not Windows 7. I tried loading my networked music in Windows Media Center, which makes it show up in my Music Library, but it's still not...

Help With Network Storage Libraries and Indexing: I have all my documents stored on a 3TB RAID 5 NAS. I would like to add some of the folders on my NAS to my Windows Libraries. I would also like to index the entire NAS. Is there any way to do this without copying and taking space on my actual...

i found ton of posts ppl talking about vista trashing hard drive due to some search indexing or something. NOt sure why caz i have it disabled.. Anyway my problem is not the same, instead i want my hard drive to run all the time like they did back in windows XP. Because W7 stops my hard drives...

So I cloned my old 250gb hd into my new hdd. It is my new boot disk and etc. I started up the computer and everything seems to be working fine. However, I am running into a problem when I try to use windows 7 back up utility: I get an error message that says "Windows backup failed while...

Windows 7 will not lock up on me if I am constantly moving the mouse or doing something like being active on the PC, if I leave the pc, as if it knows I am away from it and locks the frick up. I have max performance set for power plan I have disabled everything goes to sleep or hibernation etc...

I was using Vista x32 Home Premium, WDS4 and IFilter to index text content in 20,000 PDFs with no problems. I just installed Windows 7 RC x64, which is supposed to have the WDS4 functionality built-in. I have swicthed on pdf content indexing in the Indexer control panel, enabled content...

I've searched for related issues, but haven't seen anything quite the same. I have a 2nd partition where I keep all my music, pics, etc., but the taskbar search in the start menu doesn't return them as search results until I click "see more results," in which they then appear immediately. I...

hallo there, i upgraded to win7 from vista. one problem i have is that the search box does not list ANY files of folders from my 4 hd's thus whenever i enter a search word i only get results from PROGRAMS & CONTROL PANEL. my indexing is OK with 240.000 files indexed, have rebuild the index 3...

Hi Windows 7 RC1 Outlook 2007 SP1 using Exchange 2007 Windows Search Fully Patched System In Outlook using cached mode I'm having issues searching my e-mail. It seems to have issues indexing my latest emails. When I go to Tools | Instant Search | Indexing Status, it says I still have 2888...

I can not search pdf files using built-in Windows Search. I have Adobe Reader 9.1 installed which comes with the proper ifilter. But, when I go to indexing options it says "Registered IFilter is not found". I even downloaded and installed the standalone IFilter provided by Adobe but still...

Interesting or Odd behaviour?! I added my external drive to the Indexing Options dialogue, but after fully indexing the drive, Windows 7 failed to find any of the mp3's. However, as soon as I added the mp3's to 'My Libraries', a search from Start, found them instantly (after indexing for a...