Windows Search 4.0
Windows Search 4.0 lets you perform an instant search of your computer. Windows Search 4.0 helps you find and preview documents, e-mail messages, music files, photos, and other items on the computer.
The search engine in Windows Search 4.0 is a Microsoft Windows service that is also used by programs such as Microsoft Office Outlook 2007 and Microsoft Office OneNote 2007. You can use this search engine to index a program's content and to obtain instant results when you search in a particular program.
Windows Search 4.0 includes the following improvements:
- Support for the Encrypting File System (EFS)
- Reduced affect on Microsoft Exchange when you index e-mail in online mode, and there is no local cache (.ost)
- Support for indexing online delegate mailboxes
- Support for client-to-client remote query to shared indexed locations
- Improved indexing performance
- Faster previewer updates for Windows XP
- Per-user Group Policy settings
- Windows software updates for Watson errors
Support for the following new enterprise Group Policy objects:
Computer policies
- Prevent adding Universal Naming Convention (UNC) locations to index from Control Panel
- Prevent customizing indexed locations in Control Panel
- Prevent automatically adding shared folders to the index
- Allow for indexing of encrypted files
- Disable indexer back-off
- Prevent clients from querying the index remotely
- Allow for indexing of online delegate mailboxes
- Prevent adding user
- Specified locations to the All Locations menu
- Enable throttling for online mail indexing
Per-user policies
- Prevent adding UNC locations to the index from Control Panel
- Prevent customizing indexed locations in Control Panel
- Prevent indexing certain paths
- Default indexed paths
- Default excluded paths
To download Windows Search 4.0 Preview, click on the appropriate link for your version of Windows:
