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:

• For Windows Vista SP1 and Windows Server 2008 (32-bit)
• For Windows Vista SP1 and Windows Server 2008 (64-bit)
• For Windows XP SP2+ (32-bit)
• For Windows XP SP2+ (64-bit)
• For Windows Server 2003 SP2 and Windows Home Server (32-bit)
• For Windows Server 2003 SP2 (64-bit)
• Multilingual User Interface Pack for Windows XP SP2+
• Multilingual User Interface Pack for Windows Server 2003 SP2

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