Michael Moser wrote:
> I recently installed a program (OneNote - which I find quite nice
> and useful BTW) that - when I tried to use its search funciton -
> popped up a dialog telling me, that if I want to use that function
> I need to install Windows Desktop Search. Unfortunately - stupid me
> - I clicked OK and the thing went ahead and installed Windows
> Desktop Search. Boy, how I regretted that decision (and judging
> from misc. news groups and other entries on the net I am not alone)!
>
> This Search thingy took completely over my system. It kept my
> system and my HD busy all the time (and this is not a lame system,
> this is a top-of-the-line Laptop: 200GB HD, 2 GB RAM, etc!). It was
> impossible to continue working. Constantly the disk was working
> like mad and if one checked, it was SearchIndexer and a two or
> three other Search<Something> processes that kept the system busy.
> And it never ended doing so. I once left it running over night
> expecting that it would have indexed my system by next morning and
> that it would then behave better and not block me all the time. No!
> It continued to hog my system. No idea, what this darn thing kept
> doing!
> So in the end I decided that this was enough and disabled the
> "Windows Search" service (using msconfig.exe) Since then my system
> is usable again, but when I need to search some file, I still get
> that Windows Desktop Search window (instead of the old Search
> window) but when I enter some name or string there, I am only told,
> that "Desktop Search isn't running". So: I lost my search
> functionality completely!
> Alas, I couldn't find that darn Search in the Program list nor under
> Windows Components anywhere, neit. So, how can I safely uninstall
> this Search thingy and regain my old search functionality?

This?
http://www.lancelhoff.com/2008/04/13...esktop-search/

(Pretty sure you will need to enable it first. heh)

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