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PcUser101
Microsoft seems to have a Google complex. It tries to stuck Search and Index
functions to many places in the OS. It wants them so bad, I feel it is
losing touch to its core user base and user experience.
This is best illustrated in the Start button. In Vista, when you click on
the Start button, what pop up, right above, is "Search"... This feels odd,
because 99% of the time when I click on the Start button, I don't want to
search. I want to run application. It is possible that as I type, the
application's exe file may come up as search results.. but that is not
convenient.
I miss the Start, Run, then I can type in the exe I want to run.
Another is the Windows Search service. It frequently runs wild, unlike it
is advertised, such that it will yield to front end applications. Index a PC
can be tricky, even Google Desktop Indexing mess up from time to time.
Windows' Search service is no exception. Often it doesn't yield, sometime it
keep running, consume more and more CPU and IOs, but make no progress in the
% indexed. With other "background" services running, like anti virus scan,
iTune music file management, and other photo management services running all
in the background, it is likely to get confused... and run wild easily.
With all the hard disc noise, and my pc slow down to a virtual stand still,
I finally disabled the Windows Search service. Now my PC is very quiet. I
wonder how much hard drive's lifetime it has wasted.
I start to write this... and think I hardly use any search at all. I use
this PC for a lot of things... I always know where my files are ... I hardly
need any search at all. I only use search few times at my work PC. Never at
my home PC.
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functions to many places in the OS. It wants them so bad, I feel it is
losing touch to its core user base and user experience.
This is best illustrated in the Start button. In Vista, when you click on
the Start button, what pop up, right above, is "Search"... This feels odd,
because 99% of the time when I click on the Start button, I don't want to
search. I want to run application. It is possible that as I type, the
application's exe file may come up as search results.. but that is not
convenient.
I miss the Start, Run, then I can type in the exe I want to run.
Another is the Windows Search service. It frequently runs wild, unlike it
is advertised, such that it will yield to front end applications. Index a PC
can be tricky, even Google Desktop Indexing mess up from time to time.
Windows' Search service is no exception. Often it doesn't yield, sometime it
keep running, consume more and more CPU and IOs, but make no progress in the
% indexed. With other "background" services running, like anti virus scan,
iTune music file management, and other photo management services running all
in the background, it is likely to get confused... and run wild easily.
With all the hard disc noise, and my pc slow down to a virtual stand still,
I finally disabled the Windows Search service. Now my PC is very quiet. I
wonder how much hard drive's lifetime it has wasted.
I start to write this... and think I hardly use any search at all. I use
this PC for a lot of things... I always know where my files are ... I hardly
need any search at all. I only use search few times at my work PC. Never at
my home PC.
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suggestions with the most votes. To vote for this suggestion, click the "I
Agree" button in the message pane. If you do not see the button, follow this
link to open the suggestion in the Microsoft Web-based Newsreader and then
click "I Agree" in the message pane.
http://windowshelp.microsoft.com/co...256&dg=microsoft.public.windows.vista.general