On a Windows Vista-based or Windows Server 2008-based computer, when you save a 2007 Microsoft Office offline file while you are working offline, the index of this file is removed from the Windows Search index.

Esther Choi from Windows Vista Product Management at Microsoft demos the Instant Search feature in Windows Vista. She’s easy to understand, and the points she makes are quite useful.

On a Windows Vista-based Tablet PC that has Microsoft Office Outlook installed, the Windows Search Indexer crashes. When this issue occurs, you receive the following error message:

Microsoft Windows Search Indexer stopped working and was closed. A problem caused the application to stop working correctly. Windows will notify you if a solution is available.

When the Windows Search Indexer crashes, you cannot search in Outlook. In this situation, you must restart both the Windows Search Indexer and Outlook.

Ed continues with part 2 of this 2 part series on how to tweak Vista to your liking. This one includes: saving a search, fine-tuning search settings, System Restore and Shadow Copy, network files, and power management. Keep reading →

Ed provides some details on how Search works on your Vista system, and why it shouldn’t be slowing your computer down. Keep reading →

The Search feature of the “Handwriting recognition personalization” tool is unavailable, and the accuracy of the tool decreases.

Consider the following scenario:

• You are running a Windows Vista-based computer.
• You use Windows Desktop Search (WDS) or Instant Search to perform a search on some traditional Chinese characters.

In this scenario, documents that are known to contain the traditional Chinese characters are not returned in the search results.

For example, when you perform a search by using a person’s full name in WDS or in Instant Search, documents that contain the name are returned in the search results. However, when you perform a search by using the person’s first name, no documents are returned.

• Windows Vista Team Blog : Announcing the Windows Search 4.0 Preview
  If you use the search feature in Vista, here’s a preview of the improvements you’ll be seeing soon.
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• Changes to the default NTFS Discretionary Access Control List (DACL) settings in Windows Vista
  In Windows Vista, the NTFS file system Discretionary Access Control Lists (DACLs) have been changed to enable data sharing and collaboration in data directories that are outside protected directories.
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If you use the search feature in Vista, here’s a preview of the improvements you’ll be seeing soon. Keep reading →

In Windows Server 2008 and in Windows Vista, the Do not search files user policy setting does not work as expected. After you enable the Do not search files policy setting, you can still search for files by using the Start Search box on the Start menu.

However, you cannot use the Start Search box on the Start menu to search for files when you enable the Do not search for files policy setting on the Taskbar and Start Menu item in Control Panel.