Re: Why does Windows Vista x64 search so long? by Dima
Dima
Fri May 16 00:56:17 PDT 2008
Good anecdote Tony!
"Tony Sperling" <tony.sperling@dbREMOVEmail.dk> ÓÏÏÂÝÉÌ/ÓÏÏÂÝÉÌÁ × ÎÏ×ÏÓÔÑÈ
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> Well, for my own part, I'd say that you cannot make usefull unspecified
> searches like that. This somewhat resembles the anecdote:
>
> A prowlcar spots a man crawling under a lamp post at night. They pull up
> next to him and asks what is the matter? "I've lost my keys." says man. The
> officers step out and takes a thorough look in the surroundings. Nothing
> turns up. "Are you sure you lost them right here?" they ask. No -no, that
> was over there, but that's completely black and I can't see a thing there!"
>
> I've had much the same experience from my searches - I have to know where
> the item is NOT. Exclude CD/DVD's and other removable media if at all you
> can. For my self, I have to exclude folders with masses of CD and DVD
> *.ISO's as well, because looking through all of that would leave the machine
> antiquated before it finished.
>
>
>
>
> Tony. . .
>
>
> "Dima" <kopn@bk.ruDelete> wrote in message
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>> Thanks Colin Barnhorst for replying!
>> SP1 did not change this problem.
>> Does the simple (not advanced) search go through absolutely all files
>> and folders?
>> I'm afraid that the simple search takes more time because it searches
>> through all file and folder properties instead of only needed.
>> Sincerely.
>> "Colin Barnhorst" <c.barnhorst@comcast.net> ñîîáùèë/ñîîáùèëà â íîâîñòÿõ
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>> >I think you're describing the "progress bar." I don't do complex
> searches
>> >so I have not seen what you're describing. I do seem to recall that SP1
>> >addresses something like that, but it may not be much of a change.
>> >
>> > "R. C. White" <rc@grandecom.net> wrote in message
>> > news:2CB84D97-4608-4F92-A36F-D502A34EECCD@microsoft.com...
>> >> Hi, Colin.
>> >>
>> >> I think I know what Dima is asking and it's something that I've
> wondered
>> >> about and griped about, too - with no explanation or other feedback
> from
>> >> Microsoft. (Although I do NOT understand Dima's "the ring in
> rolling"??)
>> >>
>> >> When a search is not "nearly instantaneous" it takes nearly forever.
> The
>> >> green pulsing thermometer (I don't know what else to call it) is drawn,
>> >> then redrawn across the Address Bar. It seems to be logarithmic
>> >> (although I never took enough math to learn what a logarithm is). That
>> >> is, when you ask for an Advanced Search of Computer, the bar first goes
>> >> half-way across fairly quickly. Then it goes more slowly to about 3/4
> of
>> >> the way, appearing to redraw the bar every second or so, then more
> slowly
>> >> still to 7/8, etc., getting closer to the end with each redraw - but
>> >> never quite reaching the end. I watch hopefully as it gets to the
> little
>> >> down-pointing triangle, thinking that it will give up when it gets
> there
>> >> and report that it can't find what it's searching for. But it doesn't.
>> >> It keeps creeping further, past the vertical separator at the end of
> the
>> >> Address Bar, and then at a maddeningly slow pace across the red "X"
>> >> and... hours later, the green bar is still being redrawn and it STILL
>> >> hasn't got to the end. :>(
>> >>
>> >> So far as I know, it has never completed or given up on such a search.
>> >>
>> >> RC
>> >> --
>> >> R. C. White, CPA
>> >> San Marcos, TX
>> >> rc@grandecom.net
>> >> Microsoft Windows MVP
>> >> (Running Windows Live Mail 2008 in Vista Ultimate x64 SP1)
>> >>
>> >> "Colin Barnhorst" <c.barnhorst@comcast.net> wrote in message
>> >> news:E462DFA1-E323-4E1D-B33C-EA6C9F8D