Windows Desktop Search (WDS), How do I use it?

[Nehmo]

Windows XP Home SP2, Office 2007

I have Windows Desktop Search (WDS) version 06.00.5361.0000 installed.
That's what shows on the list in Add or Remove Programs. I also see
searchindexer.exe (this is part of WDS, isn't it?) as a running
process in Task Manager, and I have the WDS folder in Program Files. I
believe I have WDS because I have Office 2007 installed, and I think
Windows Desktop Search came with Office. But WDS doesn't seem to be
visible anywhere else, and I don't know how to use it. I don't have a
search box on the task bar, and I don't know how to bring one up.

So how do I use this program? How do I get to its search box?

The Tour for WDS on
http://www.microsoft.com/windows/desktopsearch/default.mspx implies
that I should have a search box on the Task Bar.

 

[Milly Staples [MVP - Outlook]]

Not an Office problem.

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After furious head scratching, Nehmo asked:

| Windows XP Home SP2, Office 2007
|
| I have Windows Desktop Search (WDS) version 06.00.5361.0000 installed.
| That's what shows on the list in Add or Remove Programs. I also see
| searchindexer.exe (this is part of WDS, isn't it?) as a running
| process in Task Manager, and I have the WDS folder in Program Files.
| I believe I have WDS because I have Office 2007 installed, and I think
| Windows Desktop Search came with Office. But WDS doesn't seem to be
| visible anywhere else, and I don't know how to use it. I don't have a
| search box on the task bar, and I don't know how to bring one up.
|
| So how do I use this program? How do I get to its search box?
|
| The Tour for WDS on
| http://www.microsoft.com/windows/desktopsearch/default.mspx implies
| that I should have a search box on the Task Bar.

 

[Sue Mosher [MVP-Outlook]]

Did you install WDS 3.0 Beta 2? See http://support.microsoft.com/?kbid=917013

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Sue Mosher, Outlook MVP
Author of Configuring Microsoft Outlook 2003

and Microsoft Outlook Programming - Jumpstart for
Administrators, Power Users, and Developers

 

[Diane Poremsky [MVP]]

you need to install WDS beta 2.
http://support.microsoft.com/?kbid=917013

 

[Nehmo]

I really don't know how I installed WDS. As I said, I assume it came
with Office 2007 (does it not?). Doesn't searchindexer.exe come with
Office 2007, and isn't searchindexer.exe part of WDS? I'm not running
Vista, just regular WinXP.

 

[Nehmo]

I'll try it. But what's the WDS that's already on my machine? The
version number (06.00.5361.0000) doesn't look related to v 3.

I notice that searchindexer.exe isn't in the WDS folder; It's in
C:\WINDOWS\system32. I thought searchindexer.exe was part of WDS.

 

[Nehmo]

I don't remember doing it. And if I did, I can't use it. I'll try to
install v 3 beta 2 now, and I won't first un-install the version that
seems to be on the machine now. We'll see what happens.

 

[Nehmo]

I installed WDS 3.0 beta 2 without un-installing what was on the
machine already. WDS is now working, and I have a search box on the
task bar. So far, I'm not getting results from Outlook folders, but WDS
is probably still indexing.

 

[Diane Poremsky [MVP]]

it takes a while to index and may not do it at all if the machine is never
idle - I had to r-click on the tray icon and tell it to index. You'll also
want to set it to index your my documents folder.