Mar 24, 2008 | Google, Microsoft, search, Vista
Searching in Vista quickly becomes second nature. Clicking the Start button and typing the name of a program brings it up immediately – no need to hunt through the long list of program folders. There are immediate results from opening the “Documents”...
Mar 4, 2008 | search, Vista, WinXP
Windows Desktop Search is deeply built into Windows Vista and can be added for free to Windows XP to index files and Outlook folders for instant searches. By default, it indexes everything on your individual computer and presents results from everywhere – mail,...
Feb 13, 2008 | Home_Server, search, Vista
Windows Home Server includes Windows Desktop Search 3.1 – connecting remotely to the WHS shows it sitting down on the toolbar. It’s not obvious why it’s there – you’d never do a search directly on the WHS console, right? It turns out to...
Feb 12, 2008 | Office, search, Vista, WinXP
If you are using Microsoft Office 2007 and Windows Desktop Search 3.1, then you should install a small update to the search program. The “2007 Office System Converter: Microsoft Filter Pack” will allow Windows Desktop Search to index the new file formats...
Feb 7, 2008 | Microsoft, Office, OneNote, search, software
I’ve written before about Microsoft OneNote 2007 but it bears repeating: this is the best program you’ve never heard of. OneNote collects your notes and lets you find them later. It keeps anything you want to put into it – scraps of information, web...
Nov 30, 2007 | Internet, search, security
Google has just purged its index of thousands of malware sites that were being displayed in results lists for hundreds of innocuous search phrases. It’s a quick end to a huge attack that could have caused a global uproar. The criminals registered tens of...
