Windows Search 4 without Indexing?

[Bouncing Zabaglione Bros.]

Is there any way to make the new Windows Search 4 work without the indexing service under XP? I don't search that often, so I'm happy to have to go across the whole drive when I want to find something. I'd rather do that than have the Windows Indexing Service chugging away and the extra processes.

Disabling the indexer worked under the old Windows Search (you could still search), but last time I tried this under Search 4, it just couldn't find anything that wasn't in the index.

 

[Davros]

whats search 4 ?

 

[Bludd]

I have only enabled indexing of my Outlook personal folders. I just use the regular search for anything else and search with the fancy indexed search in Outlook.

 

[Bouncing Zabaglione Bros.]

whats search 4 ?

Updated search engine for Windows XP and Vista. It's available from Windows Update and MS Download.

 

[Bouncing Zabaglione Bros.]

I have only enabled indexing of my Outlook personal folders. I just use the regular search for anything else and search with the fancy indexed search in Outlook.

Don't you lose the "Search" option in Windows Explorer panes ie it gets taken over by Windows Search 4? It just seems bizarre you can't enable some kind of fallback mode for a disk traversal if you don't want to build, store and maintain a large index.

 

[Bludd]

Seems I don't have Search 4. I have the version that Office 2007 wanted me to install. Is it v3?

 

[chavvdarrr]

well, do you have to use this "search" at all ?!

 

[Bouncing Zabaglione Bros.]

well, do you have to use this "search" at all ?!

No, but I'm hoping to gain it's other advantages without having to have the indexing, especially if it's just some arcane configuration issue.