June 20th, 2007
Microsoft to Make Vista Change in Response to Google Complaint
By Michael Santo
Executive Editor, RealTechNews
One megagiant corporation complains, and another listens … even though the complainant is a young whippersnapper in age.
Google filed a 49-page document with the Justice Department in April claiming Vista’s desktop search tool slowed down competing programs, including Google’s own free offering, and that it’s difficult for users to figure out how to switch off the Microsoft program.
Microsoft initially dismissed the allegations, but a compromise was expected to be outlined late Tuesday in a regular Justice Department status report on Microsoft’s business practices, which have frequently been challenged on antitrust grounds. Source: MSNBC
We Say: Hey, I don’t use desktop search or indexing of files on any PCs except my work PC … I don’t really want the extra overhead that produces. So this didn’t really matter to me anyway, as far as Vista goes. But I can see that Microsoft didn’t want to get embroiled in yet another antitrust action.
OffBeatMammal says:
that’s just crybaby stuff.
To turn off the search service is simple.
1) Control Panel -> Indexing Options
2) Services -> Windows Search Service -> Disabled / Stop
3) sc stop wsearch [enter[
sc config wsearch start= disabled [enter]
or 4) if they want to disable it via code from their installer so that they can run their privacy invading bloatware instead
strComputer = “.”
Set objWMIService = GetObject(”winmgmts:” _
& “{impersonationLevel=impersonate}!\\” & strComputer & “\root\cimv2″)
Set colListOfServices = objWMIService.ExecQuery _
(”Select * from Win32_Service Where DisplayName = ‘Windows Search’”)
For Each objService in colListOfServices
objService.StopService
errReturnCode = objService.ChangeStartMode(”Disabled”)
Next
some great commentary here
http://www.engadget.com/2007/06/19/vistas-search-to-be-altered-in-first-service-pack/
June 20th, 2007 at 11:50 am
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