Basically I have to index my whole PC?

Hello, if you can please shed any light on my dilemma, I'd be really appreciative. I've spent so long trying to figure out why I'm (for example) hitting F3 for a search on one of my drives as usual, and All-New WDS3 appears (replacing Search Companion) and doesn't find what i KNOW is in that folder. Why would it even LET you execute a search it has no index for !

I'm hoping i'm wrong in thinking there's no way to restore search companion as default for explorer, cause I'm not ready to wait 10 hours for WDS to make a 4GB index of my entire PC. I search so often, and SC worked fine for explorer (I just want it an optional extra I guess, particularly for Outlook, which looks good..)

thanks,

ps. is there also no way of specifying filesize, like in Search Companion "At Least: x" is replaced by "Huge: 50mb+"

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Basically I have to index my whole PC?

EricLeBouffon
Correct, there is no utility to do this.
Nightowly
Please confirm: there is no other way of "re-enabling" the Search Companion, without uninstalling WDS, other than directly changing the Registry as you suggested. No utility that you know of that will do it for me
Suja
For WDS you can use AQS (Advanced Query Syntax) to specify properties to search for. For example, to search for size, you would type "size:>50". We even support relative sizes too, like "size:small".

You can read more about AQS properties at teh following link.

http://msdn2.microsoft.com/en-gb/library/aa965711.aspx

To address your other question, You can re-enable the search companion by setting the following reg key as described below.

HKEY_CURRENT_USER\Software\Microsoft\Windows Desktop Search\DS

ShowStartSearchBand a 0 = Classic mode (aka doggy)

If you do it for HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE it will be for all users (unless they set their own). Our old index options dialog would set this (and there used to be a group policy which would set this.)
Basically I have to index my whole PC?

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