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Windows Search (Standard 7 Package Reference)

7/8/2014

This package is a Feature Pack in the category User Interface. The name of the package as it appears on disk and for use with some command-line tools is WinEmb-Search.

This package includes the search and indexing capabilities of Windows Search, used for everything from searching your computer for files and folders, to searching e-mail or Web content for terms or phrases, to searching network connections for devices such as printers. Among other improvements, index creation in Windows Search now requires fewer processor resources.

Settings

No settings provided.

Services

  • Windows Search

Dependencies

Package Dependencies

This package depends upon features provided by the following packages:

Group Dependencies

No group dependencies.

Optional Supporting Packages

You can select any number of packages from the following list:

You can use the optional packages to enable the following functions:

To do this

Use these packages

Provide support for bringing up other windows from the search invoked via the start button (for example a Windows Explorer window if looking for a file).

Internet Explorer 8 Foundation

Provide for searching through indexed data built by the search engine for some rare search cases.

Windows Data Access Components

Common Uses

Notes

Although the Search Indexing package is included as a dependency of this package, the feature itself should be turned off. To turn it off, stop and disable the Indexing Service in Control Panel.

On devices using File-Based Write Filter (FBWF) or Enhanced Write Filter with HORM (EWF) to protect volumes, folders, or files, the index created by Windows Search might not be persisted after a system restart, and therefore would have to be recreated. Due to the significant processor resources required to create indexes, you may want to stop and disable the Windows Search service in Control Panel. The Indexing Service in Control Panel may also need to be stopped and disabled as mentioned above to reduce processor usage. Search capabilities are still present, but take longer because the search index is no longer used.