Today, I'm proud to announce that there is one hidden feature (not exactly hidden, really) but this is one feature that would make your desktop search experience a GAZILLION times better. Over the past couple of months, I have been ranting about how annoying it is for Desktop Search Engines from Google and Microsoft for not being able to update it's search index quick enough. Meaning to say, after creation of a file or document on your computer, it would take sometime before the desktop search engine recognizes the new file and adds that into it's index - this would typically take a couple of minutes to a couple of hours dependant on your computer's usage.
Fortunately, the Microsoft has been listening and thus a tiny little option has been created. I'm not sure about the older versions of MSN Desktop Search but I recently discovered this option which would solve the problem I mentioned earler. If you don't have the latest version of MSN Desktop search, just drop by MSN Toolbar's website and download the utility. It comes with both the latest version of MSN Desktop Search and adds tab browsing capability to your Internet Explorer browser.
All you've got to do is the following:
1. If you don't have MSN Desktop Search GO DOWNLOAD :P
2. Right click on that little magnifying glass icon on your system tray (the one with your clock - bottom right)
3. Click "Desktop Search Options..."
4. Under the "Desktop Search" node - expand it to reveal the "Advanced Section"
5. Enable "Prioritize Indexing"
Once you have done all that, MSN Desktop Search will be SOOOOO ACCURATE and UP TO DATE that you'll do double back flips :P
Anyway, with all the positive remarks, there is a little drawback that I didn't tell you. Now that we have enabled the "Prioritize Indexing" option, MSN Desktop Search will continuously monitor your drive's activity - to ensure that it keeps it's index up-to-date at all times - with this continuous monitoring, your machine's performance might slow down.
With that said however, I'm running MSN Desktop Search with this option enabled on a Notebook computer with 512MB RAM, a 40GB Hard Disk and an Intel Centrino processor. I haven't really noticed any lag.
Either way, give this thing a try, you'll be amazed by the search results. If your computer can sustain such intensive monitoring, why not? :P
Enjoy! :P It's official - Google Desktop Search has now been removed from my machine. Yay! Good bye plain interface, welcome to a world where aesthetics rule :)
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