My experience with Windows Vista desktop search is awful. Poor overall performance and constant hard disk thrashing were the two most obvious behaviours that drove me to frustration every day.
I’m convinced it was all down to background search indexing activity.
Let me put it this way – since I disabled the default Windows Vista desktop search and changed that default to use Copernic, all these problems have gone away.
So if you have Windows Vista and experience such issues, you might want to change the default search app for your desktop. I found a helpful Microsoft Knowledgebase article 941946 that explains how to do that with Vista SP1.
So I put this video together that shows how to do it, which you might find helpful.
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Great video – really useful!
I used to use Copernic Desktop Search and Launchy before I switched to Vista late last year. But with the tight OS integration of Windows Desktop Search, I decided to stick with the MS solution.
But I have a question:
Does Copernic Desktop Search integrate with the Start menu? In other words, can I hit the Microsoft button on my keyboard, type an application name (to search) and press enter to run that app?
Thanks,
Peter