Have SP1? Want your search back?

re: Have SP1? Want your search back?

Rustiferch — Sun, 06 Apr 2008 11:18:08 GMT

Im sorry, but in reply to Ben.

Don't bag out the company, yes they have made some whopper mistakes over the years, but they wanted us to have this newly improved search in vista. It was the other companies that call 'MONOPOLY' when they don't get their way and want to be able to take the search feature over. Microsoft had to get rid of it in a hurry as they were threatened to be bitten hard from many directions. if they had time they could have made the removal and option to re-add it much better before vista was released or better by sp2. I blame all the other companies for this error in judgement.

re: Have SP1? Want your search back?

EricM770 — Sun, 06 Apr 2008 04:00:43 GMT

Blame Google for whining and crying and causing this stupid change. I've seen Google desktop and search installed on many new PCs and see why they're so slow. The integrated Vista search is great, too bad MS had to cave due to whiny crybabies.

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Ben — Fri, 04 Apr 2008 14:03:25 GMT

THANK YOU SOOOOOOO MUCH!!!!

Operational efficiency is just halted by stuff like this. Every time microsoft makes a change like this, I assume it fits into some grand design that they want you to start changing to...but FOR CRYING OUT LOUD!!! FIND ANOTHER WAY TO GET US TO ACCEPT YOUR NEW WAY DOING THINGS THAN STOPPING OUR OPERATIONS. And then all the user calls we get with stuff like this.

I mean there are so many little things that keep you rolling and high performers know how to use them - stop throwing wrenches in our gears please.

re: Have SP1? Want your search back?

LarryE — Fri, 21 Mar 2008 14:20:47 GMT

Thanks for this. Old habits are hard to change.

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Rob — Sat, 23 Feb 2008 19:41:36 GMT

What was infuriating about the Sp1 change was that even after going to Start->Default Programs->Set Your Default Programs and selecting the Windows Search the context menus were not restored. I stumbled onto the F3 method, but whatever default path it used, a simple find for "*.exe" found nothing. The UI change was a giant step backwards.

re: Have SP1? Want your search back?

Alhassan Abdulkadir — Wed, 20 Feb 2008 15:39:47 GMT

Thanks for the info..... I'd been biting my nails trying to figure out how to get this back, almost to the point of uninstalling SP1!

re: Have SP1? Want your search back?

Chakkaradeep — Mon, 18 Feb 2008 22:53:41 GMT

Excellent! I am really happy about this! Windows Search rocks!

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Have SP1? Want your search back?

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