Outlook and OneNote 2007 and Windows Desktop Search

Published Friday, May 26, 2006 11:53 AM

I had noticed this and did a bit of poking around but didn't have time to find anything conclusive. When I installed Outlook and OneNote 2007 I was prompted to upgrade to Windows Desktop Search 3.0 beta so I would have search functionality across these two new programs. No problem I thought and installed WDS beta 3. I didn't notice it until I needed to search my desktop for something, but there was no search dialog box in the taskbar. There was no little “magnifying glass” icon in my systray. I thought perhaps something got uninstalled, but when I checked Add\Remove Programs, sure enough Desktop Search showed up. Then, as I was catching up on my RSS feeds (FeedDemon 2.0 rocks) I noticed this in Chris Pratley’s OneNote blog:

 

A bunch of people are surprised that Outlook and OneNote ask you to install the new Windows Desktop Search 3.0 beta, and that this beta of WDS does not have any UI (no search box in the task bar). Yes folks, that's how it is. Sometimes things just don't all work out the way we'd like. The good news is you get instant search in those two apps. WDS 3.0 will get its UI back next time you see an update from them. So if you can survive without desktop search for a couple of months you'll be fine. If you don't install WDS 3.0 you will lose a bunch of functionality from OLK and OneNote, so please do install it. Some people are reporting that OneNote search doesn't find anything after they install WDS 3.0. Give it time. The indexer is a little shy at first so it will not immediately index your whole notebook in this beta. If after waiting a day it isn't indexed, try making changes on a bunch of pages - you may have hit a problem where pages are not marked as "not indexed yet" so the indexer thinks it is finished before it has even started. Hey it's a beta - it will all be good before we ship.

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by Chris Haaker

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# Vickrey said on Friday, May 26, 2006 6:54 PM

This sounds great, but I can't get Outlook (or Onenote) to recognize WDS 3.0.  I've downloaded and installed it several times, but nothing seems to happen -- the programs just tell me to download and install again when I click on instant search.  
  After it didn't work a few times I installed the (non-beta) Windows DeskTop task bar and then installed WDS 3.0 on top of that, but no go either.  Any suggestions?

# dave t said on Tuesday, May 30, 2006 4:49 AM

Error message when you try to install Windows Desktop Search 3.0 Beta Engine Preview: “Access is denied”
Article ID 919163

This basically takes you through the procedure (verbose logging etc) and then you have to adjust permission in the registry. I had to install, get the message then go to registry HKCR\ .msg and grant permissions, reinstall get the error messages, go to HKCR\ .doc adjust permissions and had to do this for .rft and .dot as well before it enabled a successful install and now it works fine.

HOWEVER if you go to the options- advanced- you should have the option to STOP the message if all you want to to stop it rather than go through the whole rigemorole I had to this evening…aargh! Then again if you have OneNote the onyl way to get rid of the message in OneNote is to install WDS…so either way they get you!

http://support.microsoft.com/?kbid=919163 is the article. Basically you have to find the registry sub key that is being locked and stopping the install.

Thus you find for example HKCR\.doc right click, look at ‘Permissions’ and if THIS is the key causing problems you will see the FULL CONTROL adn READ boxes are empty. Click to authorise, apply and then OK. Exit registry and reinstall WDS again. It took me four attempts and as I said I had to change .doc .dot .rft and .msg. The .msg one actually had to have the subkey Potentialhandler permission changed not the subkey itself but your Updspapi.log in C;WINDOWS should show you which key is causing the problem as it is the last entry each time (ie at the very bottom). Everything working find now but you’d think MS would have sorted that one BEFORE annoying us?