Vista Search vs. WMP11 search

[Baz]

My music folder now stands at 200GB. With default settings Vista search will
index this. If I exclude this location will it affect the search facility in
WMP 11 in any way. Then I could do all my music searches from within WMP 11,
and search for everything else with Vista search, thereby reducing Vista's
index (and indexing time) massively. Any flaws with this plan? Does the
search facility in WMP 11 depend on Vista search at all?
Best Regards
Baz

 

[BillD]

Then I could do all my music searches from within WMP 11,
and search for everything else with Vista search, thereby reducing Vista's
index (and indexing time) massively.

WMP11 uses the same index created by Vista's indexer.

 

[csmikle]

I don't index my external hard drive, but that's where my WMP media library
is and it's instant. WMP will index your stuff separately from Windows
Search, so your plan is OK.