Comments on: MSN Desktop Search: Uninstalled

By: JOEL'S BLOG

JOEL'S BLOG — Wed, 15 Dec 2004 04:01:33 +0000

MSN Desktop Search, One More Time

By: Hellsbellboy

Hellsbellboy — Wed, 15 Dec 2004 03:21:19 +0000

Installed it last night.. works great.. helps if you Defrag your harddrive every once in awhile.. lol that will speed up Indexing.. Indexed about 76GB in about 35 minutes, plus 600mb of emails. I like it.. have no use for the Outlook Express Toolbar or the IE6 Toolbar, but the taskbar tool bar is great.

By: Jeramey Jannene

Jeramey Jannene — Tue, 14 Dec 2004 23:15:14 +0000

I uninstalled right away. It doesn’t hide itself as well as Google’s does and it doesn’t support Firefox or Thunderbird (for more logical reasons).

By: Jeremy C. Wright

Jeremy C. Wright — Tue, 14 Dec 2004 12:29:38 +0000

Don’t worry Mike, it finished indexing ;-)

Jonathan: Not so much. More of a flicker and buh bye Deskbar. Could have just been the Deskbar process crashing.

To be honest, I was very impressed with the new Desktop Search. I’d even uninstalled the Google Toolbar in favour of the new MSN one. Ah well :)

By: Jonathan Hardwick

Jonathan Hardwick — Tue, 14 Dec 2004 04:48:48 +0000

Whoa, what’d you do to it?? :) Seriously, the last few dogfood builds have been very stable… but then of course the alpha-test pool was pretty much exclusively using XP SP2 on high-end hardware. Did the crashes generate any Dr Watson reports that you could send in?

By: Michael Griffiths

Michael Griffiths — Tue, 14 Dec 2004 04:34:33 +0000

lol dude

It’s still indexing my hard drive… we’ll see how it does. It was using up alot of memory during the index process, though.

Good thing I didn’t read this first – I’d never have installed it :-) Wait…. I’m not sure if that’s good for ME…

Ah, well, there’s always the very good Copernic Desktop Search to fall back on, and the X1 version Yahoo! is going to give away should be cool.