From: Ellen K. 

Wow, thanks.   :)

On Fri, 27 May 2005 22:13:29 -0700, "Rich"  wrote in message
:

>   I use an tool named SRCH.EXE.  It looks like this may have been released as
part of the IIS 4.0 Resource kit (http://www.microsoft.com/technet/archive/iis4
/reskit/iis40rg/iisrkapa.mspx).  It's really very simple.  There is a dropdown
edit similar to a browser address bar where you type your query.  The main
window contains either a list of all the files in the query results or a
simple file viewer with hit highlighting.  The same tool works against
either local or network catalogs and will query multiple catalogs at once. 
The query language is straight forward.  I believe it is documented at
http://msdn.microsoft.com/library/en-us/indexsrv/html/ixqlang_6i79.asp.
>
>Rich
>
>  "John Beckett" 
wrote in message
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>  "Rich"  wrote in message news::
>  >    I currently have over 1.3 million files on my desktop.  I have been
>  > searching them with the built in Windows content indexing since Windows
>  > 2000.  You can query it by SQL if you want.  There is an OLEDB provider.
>
>  Now that is interesting. I have been enjoying fast searching for files on
>  a Windows Server 2003 for a few months, but have wished that the query GUI
>  was a little more friendly: Less clicking to start it, and remember that I
>  only do advanced searches. I would also prefer a default of AND for
>  keyword searches, and a couple of other things.
>
>  Anyway, it appears that if I am sufficiently motivated, I could write a
>  reasonably simple front-end myself. Perhaps I could use this (which I just
>  found, but haven't yet looked at):
>  http://www.codeproject.com/aspnet/IndexingServer.asp
>
>  Can you recommend a sample app that implements a search front end?
>
>  John

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