Windows Desktop Search Questions

[Jim McGowan]

This is a bit frustrating, similar to the many IE security popups. One
of the reasons I rarely use IE anymore.

When performing a search in Windows Desktop Search, it often returns
several .EML files - I have tens of thousands of email messages
archived as .EML files on this PC.

Yet Desktop Search will not show a preview of these files, instead
giving me a security message warning of the risks involved in opening
an .EML file.

One such warning is fine - no one should be upset about that,
including me. But since these are all located in the archive folders
which I created and which are scanned regularly for any security
issues, that one warning is all I need to see. Now I would like
access to these files without having to see the warning and going
through the several challenges before I can see the results, as I am
comfortable that they are safe - I put them there!

But Desktop Search seems bound and determined to protect me from my
own files regardless of my own comfort level that they are secure.

Is there any way to turn off that security popup?

I am running Windows XP Pro SP2, my Windows Firewall is disabled, and
I have Zone Alarm Internet Security Suite running AV and AS, as well
as Windows Defender, plus I independently scan weekly with the latest
Spybot S&D and AdAware SE Plus.

This search tool looks like it would be nice - but only if I can turn
off the popups and permit the previews.

Thanks!

 

[Guest]

Hi Jim,

Sorry I don't have an answer for you at the moment but you may want to post
your question in the WDS Forum off of MSDN. You can get there via:
http://forums.microsoft.com/MSDN/ShowForum.aspx?ForumID=127&SiteID=1

Hope this helps. Meanwhile, I'll do some research but it may expedite
things to post in the forum as well.

Thanks,

Bill Connors
Program Manager
Windows Desktop Search - Communities