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New Languages Available for Windows Search 4.0 Preview

We're announcing quite a few new languages available of the Windows Search 4.0 Preview today.

The following languages are available for download for Windows XP, Windows Server 2003, Windows Vista and Windows Server 2008:

Please take note that the following languages are available on Windows XP/Windows Server 2003 only with an MUI pack:

Got feedback on the Windows Search 4.0? We've got several places that you can go to leave your feedback:

Written by Brandon LeBlanc on April 10th, 2008 with no comments.
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New Languages Available for Windows Search 4.0 Preview

We're announcing quite a few new languages available of the Windows Search 4.0 Preview today. The following languages are available for download for Windows XP, Windows Server 2003, Windows Vista and Windows Server 2008: Arabic (Only for Windows Vista/Windows Read More......(read more)

Written by Windows Vista Team Blog on April 10th, 2008 with no comments.
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Safe Browsing Feature in Google Desktop

I don’t aware of this feature in Google Desktop until one day it warns me about a potential harmful website. I thought all the way Google Desktop is doing indexing only. See the screen shot below:



At first, I thought this is something to do with the Google search engine. Eventually after a few times of this warning, I only realized it is something to do with the Google Desktop. It looks like the Google Desktop detects those sites based on the information from StopBadware.org. Badware could be some sorts of spyware, adware, viruses or Trojan horse programs

The website is http://www.digitalspy.co.uk/forums. You can try click it and see whether your browser can catch this or not. However, the website doesn't seems like have potential thread but to be safe, I didn't continue browsing in that website.

I think “Safe Browsing” is turned on by default. If not, you can perform the following instructions:

  1. Go to preference page.
  2. Click the “Other” tab at the top.
  3. Tick the “Enable Safe Browsing” check box.
  4. Click “Save Preferences” to apply the change.
Turn on the “Safe Browsing” feature in Google Desktop for better security. One thing good about this "Safe Browsing" it applies to any browsers (e.g. IE or Firefox).

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Written by ChampDog on January 15th, 2008 with comments disabled.
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Vista Desktop Search Annoyance

I thought people might find this fix interesting because it annoyed the hell out of me when I first started using Vista. Thanks to pacpis for this news.

In the XP days, I was a huge Windows Desktop Search (WDS) fan, and like many WDS fans Vista search wasn't that exciting because of new features but rather, it gave visibility to mainstream windows users that desktop search would change the way they computer.

When I used WDS I typically indexed my whole C:\ and I carried that practice over to Vista's indexing service. That's when I started having issues. I wanted to search all my content on the machine, but when I would search for any files in the Start Menu, I would never get any results returned on a search unless they were applications. For example, if I was to search for an excel file, it would not return in the Start Menu even though it was located in "Documents" -- it was very frustrating.

As it turns outs, the quick fix was to change the start menu settings so that the search bar is set to "search entire index" instead of the default "search this user's files." The problem arises due to the user changing the "indexed locations" to include all of the "C:" when the Start Menu is set to "search this user's files." This is a known bug and will be fixed in Vista SP1.

source: blogs.technet.com/tarpara

Written by Madhukara H on September 8th, 2007 with comments disabled.
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