I am not a big fan of Microsoft Desktop Search but if you are running Office 2007 on Windows XP then you pretty much need it for basic things like searching for e-mails in Outlook.

There are other Desktop Search options (Copernic and Google Desktop Search) but better the devil you know.

Microsoft have just released Version 4.0 for all their major platforms (XP, Vista and Server).

Windows Search 4.0 includes the following improvements:

• Support for indexing encrypted documents of local file systems:-
• 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 preview updates for Windows XP
• Per-user Group Policy settings
• Windows software updates for Watson errors
• Support for the following new enterprise Group Policy objects

Download Links are available on the link below.

The 5mb download for Windows XP requires the system to reboot after the install.

Tip: The new version rebuilds the index so be you may not be able to do proper searches in Outlook until fully complete (see below). It will index quicker if the computer is idle.

Link: http://support.microsoft.com/kb/940157

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