Windows Desktop Search Won't Open Some Files

[J-Mac]

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!

 

[Wesley Vogel]

Toolbar Help: Getting Started
http://search.msn.com/docs/toolbar.aspx?FORM=TBTB

Windows Desktop Search
http://www.microsoft.com/windows/desktopsearch/default.mspx

FAQ for Windows Desktop Search
http://www.microsoft.com/windows/desktopsearch/enterprise/faq.mspx


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Hope this helps. Let us know.

Wes
MS-MVP Windows Shell/User

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[J-Mac]

Toolbar Help: Getting Started
http://search.msn.com/docs/toolbar.aspx?FORM=TBTB

Windows Desktop Search
http://www.microsoft.com/windows/desktopsearch/default.mspx

FAQ for Windows Desktop Search
http://www.microsoft.com/windows/desktopsearch/enterprise/faq.mspx

Is there a particular item you are trying to alert me to, Wes?

I wouldn't post here if I hadn't read the FAQ. Just in case, I looked
through it again in case you are trying to mysteriously point
something out to me. You're not, apparently.

If you have a clue as to a solution, do tell.

 

[J-Mac]

Toolbar Help: Getting Started
http://search.msn.com/docs/toolbar.aspx?FORM=TBTB

Windows Desktop Search
http://www.microsoft.com/windows/desktopsearch/default.mspx

FAQ for Windows Desktop Search
http://www.microsoft.com/windows/desktopsearch/enterprise/faq.mspx

Additionally, anywhere I try to go from the pge you sent me is in
Spanish.

 

[Wesley Vogel]

Jim,

No. I do not use Windows Desktop Search myself, nobody else posted anything
and I posted all that I knew about it. As you can see that isn't much. I
wasn't keeping anything secret.

I clicked all kinds of links on the three pages that I posted links to and
all I saw was English. Hmm.

I just noticed that there is an Español link at the top of many of those
pages, you must've hit it by mistake.

There is a contact MS link at the bottom of this page...

Toolbar Help: Contact us
http://search.msn.com/docs/toolbar.aspx?t=MSNTbarCONC_ContactUs.htm&FORM=CTTB

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Hope this helps. Let us know.

Wes
MS-MVP Windows Shell/User

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[J-Mac]

Jim,

No. I do not use Windows Desktop Search myself, nobody else posted anything
and I posted all that I knew about it. As you can see that isn't much. I
wasn't keeping anything secret.

I clicked all kinds of links on the three pages that I posted links to and
all I saw was English. Hmm.

I just noticed that there is an Español link at the top of many of those
pages, you must've hit it by mistake.

There is a contact MS link at the bottom of this page...

Toolbar Help: Contact us
http://search.msn.com/docs/toolbar.aspx?t=MSNTbarCONC_ContactUs.htm&FORM=CTTB

Sorry Wes.

I thought you pointed me at a specific solution and spent about an
hour reading through the same FAQ info I had already read! So I was
not in the best frame of mind when I first replied.

Honest, that one link sent me to an English page, but any link I
selected took me to a Spanish page. Weird.

I cannot figure out if there is a way to turn off these "security"
alerts. I know that IE does not give you an option. Well it does - it
usually has a checkbox that says "Do not...". But it still appears
each time - ever since SP2. While I like security, I also like to have
my knowledge respected enough to warn me once, then leave me alone.

If I have to go through the four or five steps it seems to take to
view any of my archived email messages, and cannot fix that, I'll have
to remove this search and go back to Google Desktop Search. With that
I can view them immediately.

Thanks.

 

[Wesley Vogel]

Fugetaboutit.

I just use the regular Search. With a .vbs file that actually starts
Search, so that it starts with all the Advanced options already checked.

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Hope this helps. Let us know.

Wes
MS-MVP Windows Shell/User

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