Ed continues with part 2 of this 2 part series on how to tweak Vista to your liking. This one includes: saving a search, fine-tuning search settings, System Restore and Shadow Copy, network files, and power management.
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Ed provides some details on how Search works on your Vista system, and why it shouldn’t be slowing your computer down.
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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 Server 2008)
- Brazilian Portuguese
- Bulgarian
- Chinese - Simplified
- Chinese - Traditional
- Croatian
- Czech
- Danish
- Dutch
- English (There is no MUI pack for English)
- Estonian
- Finnish
- French
- German
- Greek
- Hebrew (Only for Windows Vista/Windows Server 2008)
- Hungarian
- Italian
- Japanese
- Korean
- Latvian
- Lithuanian
- Norwegian - Bokmål
- Polish
- Portuguese
- Romanian
- Russian
- Serbian - Latin
- Slovak
- Slovenian
- Spanish
- Swedish
- Thai
- Turkish
- Ukrainian
Please take note that the following languages are available on Windows XP/Windows Server 2003 only with an MUI pack:
- Bulgarian
- Croatian
- Estonian
- Latvian
- Lithuanian
- Romanian
- Serbian - Latin
- Slovak
- Slovenian
- Thai
- Ukrainian
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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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......(
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If you use the search feature in Vista, here’s a preview of the improvements you’ll be seeing soon.
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In Windows Vista, the NTFS file system Discretionary Access Control Lists (DACLs) have been changed to enable data sharing and collaboration in data directories that are outside protected directories.
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For some of you, this may explain why you’re not seeing the SP1 update as an option in Windows Update.
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Hmmm, are these really leaked? 174.70 was supposedly leaked as well.
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It’s painful just looking at this Vista box!
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Now that SP1 is available, is it time to move from XP to Vista?
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More about the Hyper-V MMC.
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If you have ever downloaded any of the google products like picasa ,google screen saver etc, you may have googleupdater.exe running as a process in your system right now.
You can check by pressing “alt+ctrl+del” to open task manager and click the process tab.
What is googleupdater.exe?
GoogleUpdater.exe is a process which belongs to the Google.com’s range of Internet search facilities provided. This program is a non-essential , can be terminated unless suspected to be causing problems.
Why its running?
This process informs the user about the new version and updates for the all the google products installed. (more…)
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Firefox may be my browser of choice but there are times when it is REALLY slow, so slow in fact that I am sorely tempted to defect to Opera or even gasp Safari!
It’s sometimes even worse when you’re opening up Firefox. You click on that little Fox icon and it sits there thinking “hmmm….he wants me to start up…will I or won’t I? Let’s think about it for a few minutes”. Meanwhile you’re sitting there gnashing your teeth and flirting with the idea of walking on the wild side with Flock.
But you don’t have to wail and despair any more! During a little stroll through SourceForge, I found an interesting program called Firefox Preloader which was short on technical details but long on prospects. It claims to be able to “improve Firefox’s start-up time”. (more…)
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Overview
From my past posts about implementing your own Shell Namespace, there have been some great questions posted by readers. Many of these stem from the fact that the Namespace example is fairly simple in that it does not implement all of the behavior that is possible in Explorer. This was done to focus on the core steps in getting a working Namespace implemented. Yet, there are a few extra steps you can take that don’t require too much more coding on your part to add more useful features. One question in particular that comes up quite often is how to enable deep searching in your Namespace.
You will notice from the existing Namespace example that if you enter a search term in the search box in Explorer, the search only filters items that are currently in the view. It does not search into the folders. In the below images, we try to search for “Two” in the search box which only results in 1 item. Thus, the sub folders were not included.
What does a Namespace implementer have to do in order to include sub folders in their namespace search results? This is actually fairly simple.
Implementing IShellFolderViewCB and IFolderViewSettings
In our previous code, we did not implement an IShellFolderViewCB for our Namespace. This allows your Namespace to be notified of events associated with the view. An implementation of IShellFolderViewCB can be specified in your call to SHCreateShellFolderView. This is optional and previously we were just passing NULL for this. We need to create a class that implements IShellFolderViewCB as well as IFolderViewSettings. For our IFolderViewSettings implementation, we only need to provide a handler for the GetFolderFlags method. It is through this method that we notify the Shell that we want to perform deep searches within our Namespace.
IFACEMETHODIMP CFolderViewCB::GetFolderFlags(__out FOLDERFLAGS *pfolderMask, __out FOLDERFLAGS *pfolderFlags)
{
if (pfolderMask)
{
*pfolderMask = FWF_USESEARCHFOLDER;
}
if (pfolderFlags)
{
*pfolderFlags = FWF_USESEARCHFOLDER;
}
return S_OK;
}
As you can see from the above implementation of GetFolderFlags, we only care to notify the Shell of the FWF_USESEARCHFOLDER flag. This tells the Shell that our Namespace should use the Search Folder for performing stacking and searching. You could also specify other flags to modify the appearance and behavior of your namespace.
The modified code for this sample is linked below. You will notice that the implementation of IShellFolderViewCB and IFolderViewSettings is rather sparse – most methods just return E_NOTIMPL as we are not using them here. You can implement these yourself if you see the need to extend your code.
Now that we have notified the Shell to use the Search Folder, we can perform deep searches within our Namespace. When we perform the same search we did previously, we now get the following results:
This Namespace simply generates 10 virtual items to a default depth of 5. The Search enumerates the contents of the Namespace to that depth. It should also be called out that we had to implement our namespace's ParseDisplayName method in order for our namespace to function in the Search folder.
*Please note that the method described here only works with the default shell view (Defview). It is not supported for custom IShellView implementations.
Building the FolderView SDK Sample
- To build the FolderViewImpl sample, be sure to download and install the Windows SDK.
- Download the modified FolderView SDK sample
- Launch FolderViewImpl.sln in Visual Studio (The solution file is for Visual Studio 2008)
- Open the properties for the project
- Add a path to the SDK includes to the C/C++ - General page
- Add a path to the SDK libs to the Linker – General page
- Build
Installing the FolderView SDK Sample
- Once you have built the sample, copy the FolderViewImpl.dll and FolderViewImpl.propdesc to the same directory
- From an elevated cmd window, regsvr32 FolderViewImpl.dll
- Restart explorer
- Open explorer to Computer
- There should be a list item named “FolderView SDK Sample”
Written by chrdavis on March 3rd, 2008 with comments disabled.
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Overview
From my past posts about implementing your own Shell Namespace, there have been some great questions posted by readers. Many of these stem from the fact that the Namespace example is fairly simple in that it does not implement all of the behavior that is possible in Explorer. This was done to focus on the core steps in getting a working Namespace implemented. Yet, there are a few extra steps you can take that don’t require too much more coding on your part to add more useful features. One question in particular that comes up quite often is how to enable deep searching in your Namespace.
You will notice from the existing Namespace example that if you enter a search term in the search box in Explorer, the search only filters items that are currently in the view. It does not search into the folders. In the below images, we try to search for “Two” in the search box which only results in 1 item. Thus, the sub folders were not included.
What does a Namespace implementer have to do in order to include sub folders in their namespace search results? This is actually fairly simple.
Implementing IShellFolderViewCB and IFolderViewSettings
In our previous code, we did not implement an IShellFolderViewCB for our Namespace. This allows your Namespace to be notified of events associated with the view. An implementation of IShellFolderViewCB can be specified in your call to SHCreateShellFolderView. This is optional and previously we were just passing NULL for this. We need to create a class that implements IShellFolderViewCB as well as IFolderViewSettings. For our IFolderViewSettings implementation, we only need to provide a handler for the GetFolderFlags method. It is through this method that we notify the Shell that we want to perform deep searches within our Namespace.
IFACEMETHODIMP CFolderViewCB::GetFolderFlags(__out FOLDERFLAGS *pfolderMask, __out FOLDERFLAGS *pfolderFlags)
{
if (pfolderMask)
{
*pfolderMask = FWF_USESEARCHFOLDER;
}
if (pfolderFlags)
{
*pfolderFlags = FWF_USESEARCHFOLDER;
}
return S_OK;
}
As you can see from the above implementation of GetFolderFlags, we only care to notify the Shell of the FWF_USESEARCHFOLDER flag. This tells the Shell that our Namespace should use the Search Folder for performing stacking and searching. You could also specify other flags to modify the appearance and behavior of your namespace.
The modified code for this sample is linked below. You will notice that the implementation of IShellFolderViewCB and IFolderViewSettings is rather sparse – most methods just return E_NOTIMPL as we are not using them here. You can implement these yourself if you see the need to extend your code.
Now that we have notified the Shell to use the Search Folder, we can perform deep searches within our Namespace. When we perform the same search we did previously, we now get the following results:
This Namespace simply generates 10 virtual items to a default depth of 5. The Search enumerates the contents of the Namespace to that depth. It should also be called out that we had to implement our namespace's ParseDisplayName method in order for our namespace to function in the Search folder.
*Please note that the method described here only works with the default shell view (Defview). It is not supported for custom IShellView implementations.
Building the FolderView SDK Sample
- To build the FolderViewImpl sample, be sure to download and install the Windows SDK.
- Download the modified FolderView SDK sample
- Launch FolderViewImpl.sln in Visual Studio (The solution file is for Visual Studio 2008)
- Open the properties for the project
- Add a path to the SDK includes to the C/C++ - General page
- Add a path to the SDK libs to the Linker – General page
- Build
Installing the FolderView SDK Sample
- Once you have built the sample, copy the FolderViewImpl.dll and FolderViewImpl.propdesc to the same directory
- From an elevated cmd window, regsvr32 FolderViewImpl.dll
- Restart explorer
- Open explorer to Computer
- There should be a list item named “FolderView SDK Sample”
Written by chrdavis on March 3rd, 2008 with comments disabled.
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If you have been following my Boot Camp series in The Daily Telegraph you may have see the recent three-parter on making XP look and behave like Vista (Poor Man’s Vista, archive on Bootlog and the DT Website) Here’s another utility to add to the mix, called Vista Start Menu Emulator. It does what it says, giving XP a Vista-like Start menu, complete with transparent borders and a Live Search facility. It’s looks and works well, though my only complaint is that I can’t seem to shift it from the default bottom right hand corner of the screen, which looks a bit odd if, like me you prefer to have your Taskbar down the right side of the screen. (more…)
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