Talk:Windows Desktop Search

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I't worth noting, that WDS it a user application, not Windows service (like MS Indexing Service). This may lead to a waste of resources if 2 users on same PC want to index the same files.

The greatest problem with it for me is that it includes, in searth results, all files contained in a folder, whose name is mathing a query (results are a list, not a tree).

WDS does not index files in hidden directories (at least by default).

WDS has its advanced searching expressions.

[edit] Privacy concerns

Does this software ever upload indexed results to Microsoft's servers like in Google Desktop? Shawnc 17:41, 9 August 2006 (UTC)

- I don't think so, and Google will only cache shared information on its servers if you tell it to so that you can access it on another computer. [1] 158.125.9.4 22:55, 10 February 2007 (UTC)

[edit] Wildcard search

I'd like to highlight the fact Windows Desktop Search is one of few desktop search engines that can search using wildcard characters in Windows.--MrBobla 15:55, 4 February 2007 (UTC)