Windows Desktop Search

[Zachariah]

I don't have Outlook Express installed (and probably had it never install). I installed using a lightly altered install CD. I'm using XP Pro.

I installed WDS (Windows Desktop Search). Now every time I boot, I get two error messages, one after the other:

and

I really don't want OE installed. Is there any way to tell WDS to not index OE?

I tried searching this forum, but I couldn't find any previous threads on this (which I kinda find hard to believe).

Edited January 3, 2008 by Zachariah

[Arie]

Can't you simply disable this via the settings of Windows Desktop Search?

(Why would anyone even want to install Windows Desktop Search?)

[Zachariah]

Can't you simply disable this via the settings of Windows Desktop Search?

I couldn't find it, though I expected it to be there.

(Why would anyone even want to install Windows Desktop Search?)

It seemed to be the least intrusive, cheapest, and best privacy desktop search from the research I did.

[Arie]

It seemed to be the least intrusive, cheapest, and best privacy desktop search from the research I did.

Why would anyone even want desktop search functionality? (Seriously, why?)

[Zachariah]

I found myself searching quite a lot over a month or two, and I was getting frustrated about how how long each search was taking. I decided it might be nice to have my files indexed on a regular basis instead, so that when I went to search the results would be instantaneous.

[Zachariah]

Well I gave up and uninstalled it. Back to molasses-slow searches.