Outlook 2007 Search
Wednesday 5th September, 2007 01:18 Comments: 4
For ages I've just assumed that it was broken. I saw there was a convoluted hack to reinstall Windows Search on Vista, but I decided against it, and hoped I wouldn't need to do much searching in Outlook. But then I decided to do a quick search on Google and I think I've found a solution. It's not a bug, it's a quirk. It's because, somewhere along the way, I had set my main machine to use the High Performance power scheme but I had also apparently selected the Power Saver option for the Indexing service. It seems that Windows will not do any indexing if it's in Power Saver mode. So a few clicks later (thanks to UAC, which I genuinely don't mind), and my setting is now set to Balanced:
And now I can search my emails. Or at least some of them, as it's still got tens of thousands of files/emails/whatever to index. Thank you Quent!
And now I can search my emails. Or at least some of them, as it's still got tens of thousands of files/emails/whatever to index. Thank you Quent!
Fab - Wednesday 5th September, 2007 11:57 Keeping UAC off seems to make a life a lot easier. I like those extra power options things. Very environmentally friendly! ;) So far Vista 64 seems to work quite well. More testing needed though...
Of course it's easier to turn it off. And it's easier to use an Administrator account for day to day tasks. But it's still not a good idea. Having said that, for a variety of reasons, I've run Windows XP on a couple of systems for years with an Admin account and not had any trouble, which makes me think it's mostly the users that are to blame.
Vista x64 is pretty good, the only problems I had when running it seemed to be a lack of decent AV software and a lack of signed drivers for some of my hardware. I'll probably move to x64 when Vienna comes out in 2009, although I plan on upgrading my main machine in Spring/Summer 2008 so I might switch back to Vista x64 around then. I don't have more than 2GB of RAM in any of my machines, so the memory limitation of x86 isn't really a problem. Having said that, there's a nice article in the latest Technet magazine that explains how Vista is a lot better at managing 4GB+ of memory on x86.
I've seen quite a few production servers that are using Windows Server 2003 x86 with 16GB of RAM (using PAE, of course). You have to wonder why they haven't switched to x64, especially when some of them are 4-8 core setups that give Minotaur a run for his money.
It didn't take too long to index my emails, and now it's all working fine.
Vista x64 is pretty good, the only problems I had when running it seemed to be a lack of decent AV software and a lack of signed drivers for some of my hardware. I'll probably move to x64 when Vienna comes out in 2009, although I plan on upgrading my main machine in Spring/Summer 2008 so I might switch back to Vista x64 around then. I don't have more than 2GB of RAM in any of my machines, so the memory limitation of x86 isn't really a problem. Having said that, there's a nice article in the latest Technet magazine that explains how Vista is a lot better at managing 4GB+ of memory on x86.
I've seen quite a few production servers that are using Windows Server 2003 x86 with 16GB of RAM (using PAE, of course). You have to wonder why they haven't switched to x64, especially when some of them are 4-8 core setups that give Minotaur a run for his money.
It didn't take too long to index my emails, and now it's all working fine.
I only use outlook at work and I don't dare index my emails here, something would break!
I am a bit worried about the lack of AV. I haven't used the machine a lot on the internet so far, but I don't want to leave it too long. I am pretty sure I will shove another 2gb of ram into it and a Sata2 next year. Should keep me happy for quite a while. I can't see it struggling with any games! ;)
I am a bit worried about the lack of AV. I haven't used the machine a lot on the internet so far, but I don't want to leave it too long. I am pretty sure I will shove another 2gb of ram into it and a Sata2 next year. Should keep me happy for quite a while. I can't see it struggling with any games! ;)
With good security settings, good patch management, standard user accounts (and/or UAC), using anti virus software is arguably just as dangerous as not running with any. Pretty much every major vendor has had problems in the last year or two, either a remotely exploitable vulnerability that gets SYSTEM access or a definition file that wipes out legitimate files (resulting in the near-death of certain servers).