October 26, 2007
Icing on the Cake: Windows Desktop Search 3.01 Doesn’t Work
So after installing, uninstalling, and being forced to re-install Windows Desktop Search 3.01, I now find out that it doesn’t work.
I need to find a file in a folder, so I right click the folder and click search. Holy Cow, Windows Desktop Search comes up now instead of the terrible, but functional Search Companion.
I give it a shot and enter the file I’m looking for and get no hits:
Luckily, they gave be a button to load the Search Companion, I click it and search again. Low and behold, the files are there after all:
So it appears that the purpose of Windows Destop Search 3.01 is NOT to provide a functional search tool:
…rather, it’s to keep Google’s product off the desktop:

