Microsoft Previews Windows Search 4.0

 

Windows Search 4.0 lets you perform an instant search of your computer. Windows Search 4.0 helps you find and preview documents, e-mail messages, music files, photos, and other items on the computer.

Windows Search 4.0 includes the following improvements:

 

• Support for the Encrypting File System (EFS)
• 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 previewer updates for Windows XP
• Per-user Group Policy settings
• Windows software updates for Watson errors

Support for the following new enterprise Group Policy objects:

Computer Policies –

 

• Prevent adding Universal Naming Convention (UNC) locations to index from Control Panel
• Prevent customizing indexed locations in Control Panel
• Prevent automatically adding shared folders to the index
• Allow for indexing of encrypted files
• Disable indexer back-off
• Prevent clients from querying the index remotely
• Allow for indexing of online delegate mailboxes
• Prevent adding user
• Specified locations to the All Locations menu
• Enable throttling for online mail indexing

Per-user Policies –

 

• Prevent adding UNC locations to the index from Control Panel
• Prevent customizing indexed locations in Control Panel
• Prevent indexing certain paths
• Default indexed paths
• Default excluded paths   

 

Download Windows Search 4.0 for: 

 

• Windows XP & Windows XP x64 Edition
• Windows Vista & Windows Vista x64 Edition
• Windows Server 2003 & Windows Server 2003 x64 Edition

 

Multilingual User Interface Packs contains resources for the following 8 languages:

 

• Chinese – Simplified (zh-CN CHS)
• Chinese – Traditional (zh-TW CHT)
• French (fr-FR FRA)
• German (de-DE DEU)
• Italian (it-IT ITA)
• Japanese (ja-JP JPN)
• Korean (ko-KR KOR)
• Spanish (es-ES ESN)

 

Download Multilingual User Interface Pack for:

 

• Windows XP 
• Windows Server 2003