Why does Windows Vista x64 search so long?

Hello!
Why does Windows Vista x64 search so long, especially when the progress in
the bar is at the end and the ring in rolling?
Sincerely,
Dima

Searching for what? Indexing took quite a while after I first installed
Vista but searching is nearly instaneous on my system.

"Dima" <kopn@bk.ruDelete> wrote in message
news:eDG4cqWqIHA.4876@TK2MSFTNGP02.phx.gbl...
> Hello!
> Why does Windows Vista x64 search so long, especially when the progress in
> the bar is at the end and the ring in rolling?
> Sincerely,
> Dima

Hi, Colin.

I think I know what Dima is asking and it's something that I've wondered
about and griped about, too - with no explanation or other feedback from
Microsoft. (Although I do NOT understand Dima's "the ring in rolling"??)

When a search is not "nearly instantaneous" it takes nearly forever. The
green pulsing thermometer (I don't know what else to call it) is drawn, then
redrawn across the Address Bar. It seems to be logarithmic (although I
never took enough math to learn what a logarithm is). That is, when you ask
for an Advanced Search of Computer, the bar first goes half-way across
fairly quickly. Then it goes more slowly to about 3/4 of the way, appearing
to redraw the bar every second or so, then more slowly still to 7/8, etc.,
getting closer to the end with each redraw - but never quite reaching the
end. I watch hopefully as it gets to the little down-pointing triangle,
thinking that it will give up when it gets there and report that it can't
find what it's searching for. But it doesn't. It keeps creeping further,
past the vertical separator at the end of the Address Bar, and then at a
maddeningly slow pace across the red "X" and... hours later, the green bar
is still being redrawn and it STILL hasn't got to the end. :>(

So far as I know, it has never completed or given up on such a search.

RC
--
R. C. White, CPA
San Marcos, TX
rc@grandecom.net
Microsoft Windows MVP
(Running Windows Live Mail 2008 in Vista Ultimate x64 SP1)

"Colin Barnhorst" <c.barnhorst@comcast.net> wrote in message
news:E462DFA1-E323-4E1D-B33C-EA6C9F8DFF7B@microsoft.com...
> Searching for what? Indexing took quite a while after I first installed
> Vista but searching is nearly instaneous on my system.
>
> "Dima" <kopn@bk.ruDelete> wrote in message
> news:eDG4cqWqIHA.4876@TK2MSFTNGP02.phx.gbl...
>> Hello!
>> Why does Windows Vista x64 search so long, especially when the progress
>> in the bar is at the end and the ring in rolling?
>> Sincerely,
>> Dima

R.C. . .,

I've heard of sifting through large amounts of data organized on Logarithmic
Scales in order to speed things up. . .this sounds more like the
"All-or-nothing Algoritm" with a revenge!

This is perplexing - MS has produced many quite sofisticated search and sort
algoritms that are right there inside the API and ready to use, if you know
how to use them (which I find troublesome). Something has to have gone very,
very wrong somewhere!


Tony. . .


"R. C. White" <rc@grandecom.net> wrote in message
news:2CB84D97-4608-4F92-A36F-D502A34EECCD@microsoft.com...
> Hi, Colin.
>
> I think I know what Dima is asking and it's something that I've wondered
> about and griped about, too - with no explanation or other feedback from
> Microsoft. (Although I do NOT understand Dima's "the ring in rolling"??)
>
> When a search is not "nearly instantaneous" it takes nearly forever. The
> green pulsing thermometer (I don't know what else to call it) is drawn,
then
> redrawn across the Address Bar. It seems to be logarithmic (although I
> never took enough math to learn what a logarithm is). That is, when you
ask
> for an Advanced Search of Computer, the bar first goes half-way across
> fairly quickly. Then it goes more slowly to about 3/4 of the way,
appearing
> to redraw the bar every second or so, then more slowly still to 7/8, etc.,
> getting closer to the end with each redraw - but never quite reaching the
> end. I watch hopefully as it gets to the little down-pointing triangle,
> thinking that it will give up when it gets there and report that it can't
> find what it's searching for. But it doesn't. It keeps creeping further,
> past the vertical separator at the end of the Address Bar, and then at a
> maddeningly slow pace across the red "X" and... hours later, the green bar
> is still being redrawn and it STILL hasn't got to the end. :>(
>
> So far as I know, it has never completed or given up on such a search.
>
> RC
> --
> R. C. White, CPA
> San Marcos, TX
> rc@grandecom.net
> Microsoft Windows MVP
> (Running Windows Live Mail 2008 in Vista Ultimate x64 SP1)
>
> "Colin Barnhorst" <c.barnhorst@comcast.net> wrote in message
> news:E462DFA1-E323-4E1D-B33C-EA6C9F8DFF7B@microsoft.com...
> > Searching for what? Indexing took quite a while after I first installed
> > Vista but searching is nearly instaneous on my system.
> >
> > "Dima" <kopn@bk.ruDelete> wrote in message
> > news:eDG4cqWqIHA.4876@TK2MSFTNGP02.phx.gbl...
> >> Hello!
> >> Why does Windows Vista x64 search so long, especially when the progress
> >> in the bar is at the end and the ring in rolling?
> >> Sincerely,
> >> Dima
>

I think you're describing the "progress bar." I don't do complex searches
so I have not seen what you're describing. I do seem to recall that SP1
addresses something like that, but it may not be much of a change.

"R. C. White" <rc@grandecom.net> wrote in message
news:2CB84D97-4608-4F92-A36F-D502A34EECCD@microsoft.com...
> Hi, Colin.
>
> I think I know what Dima is asking and it's something that I've wondered
> about and griped about, too - with no explanation or other feedback from
> Microsoft. (Although I do NOT understand Dima's "the ring in rolling"??)
>
> When a search is not "nearly instantaneous" it takes nearly forever. The
> green pulsing thermometer (I don't know what else to call it) is drawn,
> then redrawn across the Address Bar. It seems to be logarithmic (although
> I never took enough math to learn what a logarithm is). That is, when you
> ask for an Advanced Search of Computer, the bar first goes half-way across
> fairly quickly. Then it goes more slowly to about 3/4 of the way,
> appearing to redraw the bar every second or so, then more slowly still to
> 7/8, etc., getting closer to the end with each redraw - but never quite
> reaching the end. I watch hopefully as it gets to the little
> down-pointing triangle, thinking that it will give up when it gets there
> and report that it can't find what it's searching for. But it doesn't.
> It keeps creeping further, past the vertical separator at the end of the
> Address Bar, and then at a maddeningly slow pace across the red "X" and...
> hours later, the green bar is still being redrawn and it STILL hasn't got
> to the end. :>(
>
> So far as I know, it has never completed or given up on such a search.
>
> RC
> --
> R. C. White, CPA
> San Marcos, TX
> rc@grandecom.net
> Microsoft Windows MVP
> (Running Windows Live Mail 2008 in Vista Ultimate x64 SP1)
>
> "Colin Barnhorst" <c.barnhorst@comcast.net> wrote in message
> news:E462DFA1-E323-4E1D-B33C-EA6C9F8DFF7B@microsoft.com...
>> Searching for what? Indexing took quite a while after I first installed
>> Vista but searching is nearly instaneous on my system.
>>
>> "Dima" <kopn@bk.ruDelete> wrote in message
>> news:eDG4cqWqIHA.4876@TK2MSFTNGP02.phx.gbl...
>>> Hello!
>>> Why does Windows Vista x64 search so long, especially when the progress
>>> in the bar is at the end and the ring in rolling?
>>> Sincerely,
>>> Dima
>

Searching for a file or folder.
"Colin Barnhorst" <c.barnhorst@comcast.net> ñîîáùèë/ñîîáùèëà â íîâîñòÿõ
ñëåäóþùåå: news:E462DFA1-E323-4E1D-B33C-EA6C9F8DFF7B@microsoft.com...
> Searching for what? Indexing took quite a while after I first installed
> Vista but searching is nearly instaneous on my system.
>
> "Dima" <kopn@bk.ruDelete> wrote in message
> news:eDG4cqWqIHA.4876@TK2MSFTNGP02.phx.gbl...
>> Hello!
>> Why does Windows Vista x64 search so long, especially when the progress
>> in the bar is at the end and the ring in rolling?
>> Sincerely,
>> Dima
>

Thanks RC for your description!
That was "The ring is rolling" - a replacement for the sand glass.
Yes, RC, this is my problem too.
Sincerely.
"R. C. White" <rc@grandecom.net> ñîîáùèë/ñîîáùèëà â íîâîñòÿõ ñëåäóþùåå:
news:2CB84D97-4608-4F92-A36F-D502A34EECCD@microsoft.com...
> Hi, Colin.
>
> I think I know what Dima is asking and it's something that I've wondered
> about and griped about, too - with no explanation or other feedback from
> Microsoft. (Although I do NOT understand Dima's "the ring in rolling"??)
>
> When a search is not "nearly instantaneous" it takes nearly forever. The
> green pulsing thermometer (I don't know what else to call it) is drawn,
> then redrawn across the Address Bar. It seems to be logarithmic (although
> I never took enough math to learn what a logarithm is). That is, when you
> ask for an Advanced Search of Computer, the bar first goes half-way across
> fairly quickly. Then it goes more slowly to about 3/4 of the way,
> appearing to redraw the bar every second or so, then more slowly still to
> 7/8, etc., getting closer to the end with each redraw - but never quite
> reaching the end. I watch hopefully as it gets to the little
> down-pointing triangle, thinking that it will give up when it gets there
> and report that it can't find what it's searching for. But it doesn't.
> It keeps creeping further, past the vertical separator at the end of the
> Address Bar, and then at a maddeningly slow pace across the red "X" and...
> hours later, the green bar is still being redrawn and it STILL hasn't got
> to the end. :>(
>
> So far as I know, it has never completed or given up on such a search.
>
> RC
> --
> R. C. White, CPA
> San Marcos, TX
> rc@grandecom.net
> Microsoft Windows MVP
> (Running Windows Live Mail 2008 in Vista Ultimate x64 SP1)
>
> "Colin Barnhorst" <c.barnhorst@comcast.net> wrote in message
> news:E462DFA1-E323-4E1D-B33C-EA6C9F8DFF7B@microsoft.com...
>> Searching for what? Indexing took quite a while after I first installed
>> Vista but searching is nearly instaneous on my system.
>>
>> "Dima" <kopn@bk.ruDelete> wrote in message
>> news:eDG4cqWqIHA.4876@TK2MSFTNGP02.phx.gbl...
>>> Hello!
>>> Why does Windows Vista x64 search so long, especially when the progress
>>> in the bar is at the end and the ring in rolling?
>>> Sincerely,
>>> Dima
>

Thanks Colin Barnhorst for replying!
SP1 did not change this problem.
Does the simple (not advanced) search go through absolutely all files
and folders?
I'm afraid that the simple search takes more time because it searches
through all file and folder properties instead of only needed.
Sincerely.
"Colin Barnhorst" <c.barnhorst@comcast.net> ñîîáùèë/ñîîáùèëà â íîâîñòÿõ
ñëåäóþùåå: news:BE50753B-D815-4146-A495-95D38A16CD04@microsoft.com...
>I think you're describing the "progress bar." I don't do complex searches
>so I have not seen what you're describing. I do seem to recall that SP1
>addresses something like that, but it may not be much of a change.
>
> "R. C. White" <rc@grandecom.net> wrote in message
> news:2CB84D97-4608-4F92-A36F-D502A34EECCD@microsoft.com...
>> Hi, Colin.
>>
>> I think I know what Dima is asking and it's something that I've wondered
>> about and griped about, too - with no explanation or other feedback from
>> Microsoft. (Although I do NOT understand Dima's "the ring in rolling"??)
>>
>> When a search is not "nearly instantaneous" it takes nearly forever. The
>> green pulsing thermometer (I don't know what else to call it) is drawn,
>> then redrawn across the Address Bar. It seems to be logarithmic
>> (although I never took enough math to learn what a logarithm is). That
>> is, when you ask for an Advanced Search of Computer, the bar first goes
>> half-way across fairly quickly. Then it goes more slowly to about 3/4 of
>> the way, appearing to redraw the bar every second or so, then more slowly
>> still to 7/8, etc., getting closer to the end with each redraw - but
>> never quite reaching the end. I watch hopefully as it gets to the little
>> down-pointing triangle, thinking that it will give up when it gets there
>> and report that it can't find what it's searching for. But it doesn't.
>> It keeps creeping further, past the vertical separator at the end of the
>> Address Bar, and then at a maddeningly slow pace across the red "X"
>> and... hours later, the green bar is still being redrawn and it STILL
>> hasn't got to the end. :>(
>>
>> So far as I know, it has never completed or given up on such a search.
>>
>> RC
>> --
>> R. C. White, CPA
>> San Marcos, TX
>> rc@grandecom.net
>> Microsoft Windows MVP
>> (Running Windows Live Mail 2008 in Vista Ultimate x64 SP1)
>>
>> "Colin Barnhorst" <c.barnhorst@comcast.net> wrote in message
>> news:E462DFA1-E323-4E1D-B33C-EA6C9F8DFF7B@microsoft.com...
>>> Searching for what? Indexing took quite a while after I first installed
>>> Vista but searching is nearly instaneous on my system.
>>>
>>> "Dima" <kopn@bk.ruDelete> wrote in message
>>> news:eDG4cqWqIHA.4876@TK2MSFTNGP02.phx.gbl...
>>>> Hello!
>>>> Why does Windows Vista x64 search so long, especially when the progress
>>>> in the bar is at the end and the ring in rolling?
>>>> Sincerely,
>>>> Dima
>>
>

Well, for my own part, I'd say that you cannot make usefull unspecified
searches like that. This somewhat resembles the anecdote:

A prowlcar spots a man crawling under a lamp post at night. They pull up
next to him and asks what is the matter? "I've lost my keys." says man. The
officers step out and takes a thorough look in the surroundings. Nothing
turns up. "Are you sure you lost them right here?" they ask. No -no, that
was over there, but that's completely black and I can't see a thing there!"

I've had much the same experience from my searches - I have to know where
the item is NOT. Exclude CD/DVD's and other removable media if at all you
can. For my self, I have to exclude folders with masses of CD and DVD
*.ISO's as well, because looking through all of that would leave the machine
antiquated before it finished.




Tony. . .


"Dima" <kopn@bk.ruDelete> wrote in message
news:OuVdPNcqIHA.3568@TK2MSFTNGP04.phx.gbl...
> Thanks Colin Barnhorst for replying!
> SP1 did not change this problem.
> Does the simple (not advanced) search go through absolutely all files
> and folders?
> I'm afraid that the simple search takes more time because it searches
> through all file and folder properties instead of only needed.
> Sincerely.
> "Colin Barnhorst" <c.barnhorst@comcast.net> ñîîáùèë/ñîîáùèëà â íîâîñòÿõ
> ñëåäóþùåå: news:BE50753B-D815-4146-A495-95D38A16CD04@microsoft.com...
> >I think you're describing the "progress bar." I don't do complex
searches
> >so I have not seen what you're describing. I do seem to recall that SP1
> >addresses something like that, but it may not be much of a change.
> >
> > "R. C. White" <rc@grandecom.net> wrote in message
> > news:2CB84D97-4608-4F92-A36F-D502A34EECCD@microsoft.com...
> >> Hi, Colin.
> >>
> >> I think I know what Dima is asking and it's something that I've
wondered
> >> about and griped about, too - with no explanation or other feedback
from
> >> Microsoft. (Although I do NOT understand Dima's "the ring in
rolling"??)
> >>
> >> When a search is not "nearly instantaneous" it takes nearly forever.
The
> >> green pulsing thermometer (I don't know what else to call it) is drawn,
> >> then redrawn across the Address Bar. It seems to be logarithmic
> >> (although I never took enough math to learn what a logarithm is). That
> >> is, when you ask for an Advanced Search of Computer, the bar first goes
> >> half-way across fairly quickly. Then it goes more slowly to about 3/4
of
> >> the way, appearing to redraw the bar every second or so, then more
slowly
> >> still to 7/8, etc., getting closer to the end with each redraw - but
> >> never quite reaching the end. I watch hopefully as it gets to the
little
> >> down-pointing triangle, thinking that it will give up when it gets
there
> >> and report that it can't find what it's searching for. But it doesn't.
> >> It keeps creeping further, past the vertical separator at the end of
the
> >> Address Bar, and then at a maddeningly slow pace across the red "X"
> >> and... hours later, the green bar is still being redrawn and it STILL
> >> hasn't got to the end. :>(
> >>
> >> So far as I know, it has never completed or given up on such a search.
> >>
> >> RC
> >> --
> >> R. C. White, CPA
> >> San Marcos, TX
> >> rc@grandecom.net
> >> Microsoft Windows MVP
> >> (Running Windows Live Mail 2008 in Vista Ultimate x64 SP1)
> >>
> >> "Colin Barnhorst" <c.barnhorst@comcast.net> wrote in message
> >> news:E462DFA1-E323-4E1D-B33C-EA6C9F8DFF7B@microsoft.com...
> >>> Searching for what? Indexing took quite a while after I first
installed
> >>> Vista but searching is nearly instaneous on my system.
> >>>
> >>> "Dima" <kopn@bk.ruDelete> wrote in message
> >>> news:eDG4cqWqIHA.4876@TK2MSFTNGP02.phx.gbl...
> >>>> Hello!
> >>>> Why does Windows Vista x64 search so long, especially when the
progress
> >>>> in the bar is at the end and the ring in rolling?
> >>>> Sincerely,
> >>>> Dima
> >>
> >
>
>
>

Have anybody resolved this slow search?
Sincerely,
Dima
"R. C. White" <rc@grandecom.net> ñîîáùèë/ñîîáùèëà â íîâîñòÿõ ñëåäóþùåå:
news:2CB84D97-4608-4F92-A36F-D502A34EECCD@microsoft.com...
> Hi, Colin.
>
> I think I know what Dima is asking and it's something that I've wondered
> about and griped about, too - with no explanation or other feedback from
> Microsoft. (Although I do NOT understand Dima's "the ring in rolling"??)
>
> When a search is not "nearly instantaneous" it takes nearly forever. The
> green pulsing thermometer (I don't know what else to call it) is drawn,
> then redrawn across the Address Bar. It seems to be logarithmic (although
> I never took enough math to learn what a logarithm is). That is, when you
> ask for an Advanced Search of Computer, the bar first goes half-way across
> fairly quickly. Then it goes more slowly to about 3/4 of the way,
> appearing to redraw the bar every second or so, then more slowly still to
> 7/8, etc., getting closer to the end with each redraw - but never quite
> reaching the end. I watch hopefully as it gets to the little
> down-pointing triangle, thinking that it will give up when it gets there
> and report that it can't find what it's searching for. But it doesn't.
> It keeps creeping further, past the vertical separator at the end of the
> Address Bar, and then at a maddeningly slow pace across the red "X" and...
> hours later, the green bar is still being redrawn and it STILL hasn't got
> to the end. :>(
>
> So far as I know, it has never completed or given up on such a search.
>
> RC
> --
> R. C. White, CPA
> San Marcos, TX
> rc@grandecom.net
> Microsoft Windows MVP
> (Running Windows Live Mail 2008 in Vista Ultimate x64 SP1)
>
> "Colin Barnhorst" <c.barnhorst@comcast.net> wrote in message
> news:E462DFA1-E323-4E1D-B33C-EA6C9F8DFF7B@microsoft.com...
>> Searching for what? Indexing took quite a while after I first installed
>> Vista but searching is nearly instaneous on my system.
>>
>> "Dima" <kopn@bk.ruDelete> wrote in message
>> news:eDG4cqWqIHA.4876@TK2MSFTNGP02.phx.gbl...
>>> Hello!
>>> Why does Windows Vista x64 search so long, especially when the progress
>>> in the bar is at the end and the ring in rolling?
>>> Sincerely,
>>> Dima
>