[HingVista]

Today we get to see a little "preview" of the next step for Windows Search (Windows Vista's desktop search feature). The Windows Search Team is making available Windows Search 4.0 Preview - a preview of the next version of desktop search for Windows.

Windows Search 4.0 introduces several improvements I'd like to call out making search even better in Windows Vista:

• With Windows Search 4.0, the Windows Search Team has fixed most of the reported bugs causing a majority of distractions users have seen since Windows Vista RTM - many of those bugs were reported by you.
  
• Great improvements have been made with regards to performance.Even now as Preview, Windows Search 4.0 has query response time about 33%faster than search queries in Windows Vista RTM.
  
• The Windows Search Team has extended Remote Index Discovery for PC-to-PC search to work onevery supported version of Windows. This makes finding information on other PCs running Windows Search 4.0 quick and less resource-consuming. Now Windows Search can find information shared on a remote PC by accessing an index on that PC - and you will open files only when relevant to your search. This will also work if the user's profile is redirected.
  
• The Windows Search Team has implemented Rollback Recovery where your search index will roll back to the last known good state (this is good in handling disc write errors). If an error occurs, your index isn't rebuilt from scratch; only the newly changed files are added to the index, making recovery from system errors not as disruptive to the machine or the user

Download (for Windows Vista and XP)
Official News Post

[kaironxp]

I still use 2.6.6 version, works much better on windows nt 5.1 and nt 5.2, WSD 3.0.1 has a vista look and i dont like it.

bye

[Rich246]

I installed this about 15 mins ago, and I can't find where to run it, where is it located? I have Vista SP1.

[Seventh Surfer]

Interesting, but it is a preview version so I'll wait for the beta at least.

[M.Sudoku]

I rarely use the inbuilt search feature, so it;s not for me.

[adrynalyne]

For Vista, this upgrades in the built in search utility. The changes are all under the hood, unless you are using XP.

[kaironxp]

o, i've installed but it doesn't find nothing coherent!!!

I retorned to 2.6.6 windows destop search, that work for me

bye

[Razor VinT]

Great desktop search program, but I still prefer to use Google Desktop because.
1.) It can do everything which Windows Search does and a lot more.
2.) It is not in alpha or beta testing stage.
2.) It is a good widget engine too with a sidebar.

[mediar]

I don't like the new design. The default search engine of win xp looks much better.

[kaironxp]

mediar, on Mar 31 2008, 07:29 PM, said:

I don't like the new design. The default search engine of win xp looks much better.

yes, I agree with u buddy