I’m having several problem defining file locations to be searched. These problems seem to have appeared since I upgraded to WDS v3. I have reinstalled it twice. I have wholly deleted it and reinstalled once.
I’m running XP Home SP2. I tend to run programs hygienically – generally as a limited account (user), and the user’s files are set “private” (though I have taken this off, and it appears to make no difference.)
Problems:
- The documentation talks of the WDS Options having a “General” tab. I don’t get one. I just get a single window called “Indexing Options”. Maybe this is just a documentation error, because the same happens in the Admin account.
- When in the Admin account, the indexing option offers C: and I can browse the file tree to say where to index. However, as a limited user, C: is not offered, and I cannot see how to index my files.
- The “Windows Desktop Search” window has a status message saying “WDS Engine is starting up. Please wait…”. This just stays there, for ever.
I should say it indexes Outlook just fine, so WDS is working. I like it!
Obviously, item 2 is the important one to me. I offer the other oddities just in case they are relevant, though I suspect they are just bugs.
Can’t find any references in the KB or the forum. Thanks in advance for your help.
Defining file locations to be indexed in WDS 3
GPinNY
Changing indexed file locations is a system setting and needs to be done under an admin account. Items that is per-user, like email, can be changed by non-admin users for thier accounts only.
You can create a short cut to launch the indexing control panel and use the "run as" to give it elevation as an admin.
"C:\WINDOWS\system32\rundll32.exe" C:\WINDOWS\system32\shell32.dll,Control_RunDLL "C:\WINDOWS\System32\srchadmin.dll",Indexing Options
tjmaxx7
Thank you for a rapid and excellent reply. Your fix worked!
You might add, when you come to document this, that, if the files you want to index are "private" in file sharing, then you have to make them non-private, otherwise Indexing Options (running as Admin) doesn't see the files.
Thanks again