Important tweaks for Windows Desktop Search 3.0
When I installed Office 2007, I upgraded from Windows Desktop Search 2.6.6, which is the most recent version posted to the official Windows Desktop Search site, to Windows Desktop Search 3.0, which is used by Outlook 2007 and OneNote 2007.
Afterwards, I noticed that my searches weren’t as complete as they used to be. I figured it was just taking some time to rebuild the indexes. But then I discovered that WDS 3, unlike WDS 2, does NOT search network folders. Since I have the My Documents folder stored on my server, that folder wasn’t getting indexed at all.
If you want WDS 3 to search your network shares, you’ll need this add-in. Then you’ll need to manually configure WDS to search the network shares you specify. It won’t find My Documents automatically, the way it does if My Documents is on your C: drive.
While we’re on the subject of WDS, take a look at this article on EventID.net. I don’t even have Adobe Acrobat software on my computer — I use ScanSoft PDF Converter Pro instead — but I did have the IFilter listed within WDS. I disabled it per the instructions and I’m hoping to get better performance. (Or at least to get rid of those annoying error messages.)
