How do you add "desktop search" to taskbar or sidebar?

[Ben Cadet]

I've just spent the last few hours futilely trying to add the native 'Windows
desktop search' to either my taskbar, or the sidebar as a gadget - but to no
avail.

Does anyone have any idea how to provide this obvious piece of ergonomics &
functionality?

I'm VERY suprised that this isn't an 'easy' thing to do...

Ben

 

[Dave Wood [MSFT]]

The replacement for search on the task bar is having search in the start
menu. It's the same number of clicks away - just click or hit the windows
key and start typing your search.

One of the devs in the search team Brandon has a couple of tools and gadgets
available for download - I'm not sure they do exactly what you want but you
might find them interesting: http://brandontools.com/

Dave Wood

 

[Ben Cadet]

Thanks for the reply, Dave

Unfortunately still does not supply me with an answer!
I checked out http://brandontools.com/ , but there was nothing that helped
me there.

Any one else have any ideas?

Ben

 

[Dave Wood [MSFT]]

Can you explain what having search on the taskbar would add for you over the
existing Start Menu search?

Dave

 

[Ben Cadet]

I think it would be more ergonomic and easier to use.
To be honest, Dave, I didn't think it would be that hard a thing to sort out.
I'm used to using this kind of search on other OSs, and if I recall
correctly, Google desktop has this kind of functionality - but I would rather
remain 'In House', so to speak, as my experiences from using google desktop a
few years ago showed it to be an awful system hog.
Ben

 

[Dave Wood [MSFT]]

There's no way to do this built-in to Vista. I'm not aware of a third-party
gadget to do this.

 

[Ben Cadet]

Thanks for your help, Dave.

There's no way to do this built-in to Vista. I'm not aware of a third-party
gadget to do this.