breadandbubbles Posted November 4, 2006 Share Posted November 4, 2006 I have my PC partitioned. a small C: drive, and a very large D: drive. the only thing on the C: drive is Windows Pro. sp2. I keep the C: drive frozen, so spyware or viruses or any changes at all wont take effect. I make changes to the D: drive only.I want to use Windows Desktop Search, but it wont let me choose where to install it. So i have to install it to the C: drive. which would be alright...except the indexing doesnt work. itll index all day, but if i restart the computer, it starts all over.Is there any way to fix this?does anyone know of a good desktop search that will let me choose where to install?i want to use WDS, but if i ahve to use another, i will. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
LLXX Posted November 4, 2006 Share Posted November 4, 2006 Install, then copy all the files over to D: ?You might have to change some paths in the registry that are related to it (use Regmon during installation). Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
MagicAndre1981 Posted November 5, 2006 Share Posted November 5, 2006 did you enable the Indexing Service? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Keris Posted November 5, 2006 Share Posted November 5, 2006 You can move the index file to drive D in the settings. The default place is in your User directory, which I assume is on your drive C. To change this, right-click the sys tray icon and choose "Windows Desktop Search" then click on "Advanced". The bottom option is to change the Index location. Just put it on your D drive and then restart the WDS service and all will be well.Also noted above, you MUST enable Indexing on the drive properties for it to actually index anything. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
breadandbubbles Posted November 6, 2006 Author Share Posted November 6, 2006 man, you guys rock.so helpful. i feel dumb for not having figured this all out. i really tried too!thanks for your time! Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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