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href="/wiki/Bing_search" class="mw-redirect" title="Bing search">Bing search</a> on the right.</div></td></tr><tr><th scope="row" class="infobox-label" style="white-space: nowrap;"><a href="/wiki/Programmer" title="Programmer">Developer(s)</a></th><td class="infobox-data"><a href="/wiki/Microsoft" title="Microsoft">Microsoft</a></td></tr><tr><th scope="row" class="infobox-label" style="white-space: nowrap;">Initial release</th><td class="infobox-data">January 30, 2007<span class="noprint">; 17 years ago</span><span style="display:none"> (<span class="bday dtstart published updated">2007-01-30</span>)</span></td></tr><tr><th scope="row" class="infobox-label" style="white-space: nowrap;"><a href="/wiki/Operating_system" title="Operating system">Operating system</a></th><td class="infobox-data"><a href="/wiki/Microsoft_Windows" title="Microsoft Windows">Microsoft Windows</a></td></tr><tr><th scope="row" class="infobox-label" style="white-space: nowrap;">Predecessor</th><td class="infobox-data"><a href="/wiki/Indexing_Service" title="Indexing Service">Indexing Service</a>, Windows Desktop Search</td></tr><tr><th scope="row" class="infobox-label" style="white-space: nowrap;">Service name</th><td class="infobox-data">Windows Search (<code>WSearch</code>)</td></tr><tr><th scope="row" class="infobox-label" style="white-space: nowrap;"><a href="/wiki/Software_categories#Categorization_approaches" title="Software categories">Type</a></th><td class="infobox-data"><a href="/wiki/Desktop_search" title="Desktop search">Desktop search</a></td></tr><tr><th scope="row" class="infobox-label" style="white-space: nowrap;">Website</th><td class="infobox-data"><a rel="nofollow" class="external free" href="https://support.microsoft.com/en-us/help/17190/windows-10-search-for-anything">https://support.microsoft.com/en-us/help/17190/windows-10-search-for-anything</a></td></tr></tbody></table> <p><b>Windows Search</b> (formerly MSN Desktop Search, Windows Desktop Search, and the Windows Search Engine) is a <a href="/wiki/Content_index" class="mw-redirect" title="Content index">content index</a> and <a href="/wiki/Desktop_search" title="Desktop search">desktop search</a> platform by <a href="/wiki/Microsoft" title="Microsoft">Microsoft</a> introduced in <a href="/wiki/Windows_Vista" title="Windows Vista">Windows Vista</a> as a replacement for the previous <a href="/wiki/Indexing_Service" title="Indexing Service">Indexing Service</a> of <a href="/wiki/Windows_2000" title="Windows 2000">Windows 2000</a>, <a href="/wiki/Windows_XP" title="Windows XP">Windows XP</a>, and <a href="/wiki/Windows_Server_2003" title="Windows Server 2003">Windows Server 2003</a>, designed to facilitate local and remote queries for files and non-file items in the <a href="/wiki/Windows_Shell" class="mw-redirect" title="Windows Shell">Windows Shell</a> and in compatible applications. It was developed after the postponement of <a href="/wiki/WinFS" title="WinFS">WinFS</a> and introduced to Windows several benefits of that platform. </p><p>Windows Search creates a local Index of files — audio tracks, documents, folders, programs, photos, and videos — as well as of non-file items such as contacts and messages of <a href="/wiki/Microsoft_Outlook" title="Microsoft Outlook">Microsoft Outlook</a> and their metadata for which users can perform <a href="/wiki/Incremental_search" title="Incremental search">incremental searches</a> based on details such as contents, dates, names, types, and sizes; the Index consists of prose within files and items and <a href="/wiki/Metadata" title="Metadata">metadata</a> properties. <a href="/wiki/Control_Panel_(Windows)" title="Control Panel (Windows)">Control Panel</a> and <a href="/wiki/Settings_(Windows)" title="Settings (Windows)">Settings</a> can also be searched. </p><p>Windows Search was introduced to enhance search result rapidity, simplify data discovery, and to unify desktop search platforms across <a href="/wiki/Microsoft_Windows" title="Microsoft Windows">Microsoft Windows</a>; it was available as an optional download for Windows 2000 and Windows XP. It has received several updates since its introduction and it is also available in <a href="/wiki/Windows_7" title="Windows 7">Windows 7</a>, <a href="/wiki/Windows_8" title="Windows 8">Windows 8</a>, <a href="/wiki/Windows_RT" title="Windows RT">Windows RT</a>, <a href="/wiki/Windows_8.1" title="Windows 8.1">Windows 8.1</a>, <a href="/wiki/Windows_10" title="Windows 10">Windows 10</a>, and <a href="/wiki/Windows_11" title="Windows 11">Windows 11</a>. </p> <meta property="mw:PageProp/toc" /> <div class="mw-heading mw-heading2"><h2 id="History">History</h2><span class="mw-editsection"><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">[</span><a href="/w/index.php?title=Windows_Search&action=edit&section=1" title="Edit section: History"><span>edit</span></a><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">]</span></span></div> <p>Windows Search is the successor of the Indexing Service, a content indexing solution originally developed as an optional download for <a href="/wiki/Windows_NT_4.0" title="Windows NT 4.0">Windows NT 4.0</a> and <a href="/wiki/Internet_Information_Services" title="Internet Information Services">Internet Information Services</a> 3.0, designed to gather resources located on Web servers; it is a remainder of the Object File System of the <a href="/wiki/Cairo_(operating_system)" title="Cairo (operating system)">Cairo</a> operating system project that never fully emerged.<sup id="cite_ref-WindowsSearchEvolution_1-0" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-WindowsSearchEvolution-1"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>1<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> Development of Windows Search began in 2004 after the postponement of WinFS, the common data storage platform <a href="/wiki/Development_of_Windows_Vista#Mid-2004_to_mid-2005:_Development_"reset"(Post-Reset_Builds)" title="Development of Windows Vista">developed for Windows Vista</a>, as an optional component of its MSN Toolbar Suite ("MSN Toolbar Suite with Desktop Search") for Windows XP and Windows 2000 released as preliminary software on December 13, 2004.<sup id="cite_ref-”December”_2-0" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-”December”-2"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>2<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> </p><p>In prerelease builds of Windows Vista it was integrated with the Windows Shell, renamed as the Windows Search Engine,<sup id="cite_ref-WindowsVistaBeta1_3-0" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-WindowsVistaBeta1-3"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>3<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> and introduced features that were originally touted as benefits of WinFS: content indexing, incremental searching, property stacking, and <a href="/wiki/Virtual_folder#Saved_Searches" title="Virtual folder">query persisting</a>.<sup id="cite_ref-WinFS2003PDC_4-0" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-WinFS2003PDC-4"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>4<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup><sup id="cite_ref-WVPG_5-0" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-WVPG-5"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>5<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> Windows Search like WinFS<sup id="cite_ref-NETShow_6-0" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-NETShow-6"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>6<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> enables queries across existing commonalities between items (such as finding all messages with attachments,<sup id="cite_ref-HasAttachments_7-0" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-HasAttachments-7"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>7<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> or all messages with <a href="/wiki/Microsoft_PowerPoint" title="Microsoft PowerPoint">PowerPoint</a> slides that mention only a particular subject<sup id="cite_ref-AttachmentContents_8-0" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-AttachmentContents-8"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>8<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup>) but unlike WinFS it does not provide a relational item database with schema-based enforcement, management, and storage; it provides a way to search for commonalities that already exist across disparate types.<sup id="cite_ref-TrystWithDestiny_9-0" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-TrystWithDestiny-9"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>9<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup><sup id="cite_ref-WinFSMailboxII_10-0" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-WinFSMailboxII-10"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>10<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> </p><p>Windows Search additionally deprecates the Indexing Service,<sup id="cite_ref-IndexingServiceDeprecated_11-0" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-IndexingServiceDeprecated-11"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>11<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> as WinFS was originally meant to do.<sup id="cite_ref-WinFSIndexingServiceDeprecation_12-0" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-WinFSIndexingServiceDeprecation-12"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>12<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> Microsoft ultimately removed the Indexing Service from Windows with the release of Windows 8 in 2012.<sup id="cite_ref-IndexingServiceRemoved_13-0" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-IndexingServiceRemoved-13"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>13<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> </p> <div class="mw-heading mw-heading2"><h2 id="Overview">Overview</h2><span class="mw-editsection"><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">[</span><a href="/w/index.php?title=Windows_Search&action=edit&section=2" title="Edit section: Overview"><span>edit</span></a><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">]</span></span></div> <p>Windows Search builds a local Index of files and non-file items stored on a machine, which allows results to appear more rapidly when users perform searches than when searching for unindexed files or items. Microsoft suggests that a few hours may be necessary for the building process to complete, an assessment dependent on the number and size of files and non-file items to index. Windows Search enables incremental search (<i>search as you type</i> or <i>wordwheeling</i>) to present search results immediately when a character is typed in a search box, with subsequent entered characters further narrowing and refining results even before the full name, phrase, or word is entered.<sup id="cite_ref-WindowsSearchTechnicalFAQ_14-0" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-WindowsSearchTechnicalFAQ-14"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>14<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> No information in the Index is sent to Microsoft.<sup id="cite_ref-Privacy_15-0" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-Privacy-15"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>15<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup><sup id="cite_ref-Windows10SearchIndexingFAQ_16-0" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-Windows10SearchIndexingFAQ-16"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>16<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup><sup id="cite_ref-WindowsSearchPrivacy_17-0" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-WindowsSearchPrivacy-17"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>17<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> </p><p>Windows Search is an extensible and programmable platform with multiple interfaces for operating over new or preexisting applications, data stores, file systems, and types:<sup id="cite_ref-WindowsSearchTechnicalFAQ_14-1" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-WindowsSearchTechnicalFAQ-14"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>14<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> </p> <table border="1" class="wikitable floatright" style="font-size:100%"> <tbody><tr> <th>Interface</th> <th>Purpose and use in Windows Search </th></tr> <tr> <td><b>IFilters</b> (<b>Filter Handlers</b>)</td> <td>Extract, parse, and scan file contents </td></tr> <tr> <td><b>Property Handlers</b></td> <td>Emit properties of files and items </td></tr> <tr> <td><b>Protocol Handlers</b></td> <td>Expose data in data stores and file systems </td></tr> </tbody></table> <ul><li><b><a href="/wiki/IFilters" class="mw-redirect" title="IFilters">IFilters</a> (<i>Filter Handlers</i>)</b> — the same interface used by <a href="/wiki/Microsoft_Exchange_Server" title="Microsoft Exchange Server">Microsoft Exchange Server</a>, <a href="/wiki/SharePoint" title="SharePoint">SharePoint</a>, and <a href="/wiki/Microsoft_SQL_Server" title="Microsoft SQL Server">SQL Server</a> — are used to extract, parse, and store in the Index the contents of various <a href="/wiki/File_format" title="File format">file formats</a>. Default IFilters are available for over 200 common file formats (including <a href="/wiki/Audio_Video_Interleave" title="Audio Video Interleave">AVI</a>, <a href="/wiki/BMP_file_format" title="BMP file format">BMP</a>, <a href="/wiki/Email#Filename_extensions" title="Email">EML</a>, <a href="/wiki/GIF" title="GIF">GIF</a>, <a href="/wiki/Microsoft_Excel" title="Microsoft Excel">Excel</a>, <a href="/wiki/HTML" title="HTML">HTML</a>, <a href="/wiki/JPEG" title="JPEG">JPEG</a>, <a href="/wiki/MHTML" title="MHTML">MHT</a>, <a href="/wiki/MSG" class="mw-redirect" title="MSG">MSG</a>, <a href="/wiki/Portable_Network_Graphics" class="mw-redirect" title="Portable Network Graphics">PNG</a>, PowerPoint, <a href="/wiki/Text_file" title="Text file">TXT</a>, <a href="/wiki/XML" title="XML">XML</a>, <a href="/wiki/Windows_Media_Audio" title="Windows Media Audio">WMA</a>, <a href="/wiki/Windows_Media_Video" title="Windows Media Video">WMV</a>, and <a href="/wiki/Microsoft_Word" title="Microsoft Word">Word</a> files). IFilters can be created for new or proprietary formats.<sup id="cite_ref-SearchableFileTypes_18-0" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-SearchableFileTypes-18"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>18<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup></li> <li><b>Property Handlers</b> of the Microsoft Property System introduced in Windows Vista expose metadata properties of files and non-file items to the Index for rapid retrieval in response to user queries; property handlers can be created for new and proprietary files and non-file items.<sup id="cite_ref-UnderstandingPropertyHandlers_19-0" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-UnderstandingPropertyHandlers-19"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>19<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup></li> <li><b>Protocol Handlers</b> enable files and non-file items in repositories of proprietary applications or file systems to be indexed by the Indexer and exposed to the Windows Shell. There are inbox protocol handlers for the File System, <a href="/wiki/Internet_Explorer" title="Internet Explorer">Internet Explorer</a>, Microsoft Outlook, and <a href="/wiki/Windows_Vista_I/O_technologies#Offline_Files" title="Windows Vista I/O technologies">Offline Files</a>.<sup id="cite_ref-UnderstandingProtocolHandlers_20-0" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-UnderstandingProtocolHandlers-20"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>20<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup></li></ul> <div class="mw-heading mw-heading2"><h2 id="Architecture">Architecture</h2><span class="mw-editsection"><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">[</span><a href="/w/index.php?title=Windows_Search&action=edit&section=3" title="Edit section: Architecture"><span>edit</span></a><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">]</span></span></div> <p>Windows Search is implemented as a <a href="/wiki/Windows_Service" class="mw-redirect" title="Windows Service">Windows Service</a>. The search service implements the Windows Search configuration and query APIs and also controls, as well as all indexing and query components. The most important component of Windows Search is the Indexer, which crawls the file system on initial setup, and then listens for file system notifications to pick up changed files in order to create and maintain the index of data. It achieves this using three processes:<sup id="cite_ref-21" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-21"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>21<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> </p> <ol><li><b>SearchIndexer.exe</b>, which hosts the indexes and the list of <a href="/wiki/URI" class="mw-redirect" title="URI">URIs</a> that require indexing, as well as exposes the external configuration and query APIs that other applications use to leverage the Windows Search features.</li> <li><b>SearchProtocolHost.exe</b>, which hosts the protocol handlers. It runs with the least permission required for the protocol handler. For example, when accessing filesystem, it runs with the credentials of the system account, but on accessing network shares, it runs with the credentials of the user.</li> <li><b>SearchFilterHost.exe</b>, which hosts the IFilters and property handlers to extract metadata and textual content. It is a low integrity process, which means that it does not have any permission to change the system settings, so even if it encounters files with malicious content, and by any chance if they manage to take over the process, they will not be able to change any system settings.</li></ol> <p>The search service consists of several components, including the <i>Gatherer</i>, the <i>Merger</i>,<sup id="cite_ref-bgsearch_22-0" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-bgsearch-22"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>22<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> the Backoff Controller, and the Query Processor, among others. The <i>Gatherer</i> retrieves the list of URIs that need to be crawled and invokes proper protocol handler to access the store that hosts the URI, and then the proper property-handler (to extract metadata) and IFilter to extract the document text. Different indices are created during different runs; it is the job of the <i>Merger</i> to periodically merge the indices.<sup id="cite_ref-bgsearch_22-1" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-bgsearch-22"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>22<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> While indexing, the indices are generally maintained in-memory and then flushed to disk after a merge to reduce disk I/O. The metadata is stored in property store, which is a database maintained by the <a href="/wiki/Extensible_Storage_Engine" title="Extensible Storage Engine">ESE</a> database engine.<sup id="cite_ref-bgsearch_22-2" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-bgsearch-22"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>22<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> The text is tokenized and the tokens are stored in a custom database built using <a href="/wiki/Inverted_index" title="Inverted index">Inverted Indices</a>.<sup id="cite_ref-bgsearch_22-3" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-bgsearch-22"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>22<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> Apart from the indices and property store, another persistent data structure is maintained: the <i>Gather Queue</i>.<sup id="cite_ref-bgsearch_22-4" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-bgsearch-22"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>22<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> The <i>Gather Queue</i> maintains a prioritized queue of URIs that needs indexing. The Backoff Controller mentioned above monitors the available system resources, and controls the rate at which the indexer runs. It has three states:<sup id="cite_ref-bgsearch_22-5" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-bgsearch-22"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>22<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> </p> <figure class="mw-halign-right" typeof="mw:File/Thumb"><a href="/wiki/File:Windows_Search.svg" class="mw-file-description"><img src="//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/9/90/Windows_Search.svg/240px-Windows_Search.svg.png" decoding="async" width="240" height="171" class="mw-file-element" srcset="//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/9/90/Windows_Search.svg/360px-Windows_Search.svg.png 1.5x, //upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/9/90/Windows_Search.svg/480px-Windows_Search.svg.png 2x" data-file-width="810" data-file-height="576" /></a><figcaption>Windows Search architecture</figcaption></figure> <ol><li><b>Running</b>: In this state, the indexer runs without any restrictions. The indexer runs in this state only when there is no contention for resources.</li> <li><b>Throttled</b>: In this state, the crawling of URIs and extraction of text and metadata is deliberately throttled, so that the number of operations per minute is kept under tight control. The indexer is in this state when there is contention for resources, for example, when other applications are running. By throttling the operations, it is ensured that the other operations are not starved of resources they might need.</li> <li><b>Backed off</b>: In this state, no indexing is done. Only the <i>Gather Queues</i> are kept active so that items do not go unindexed. This state is activated on extreme resource shortage (less than 5 MB of RAM or 200 MB of disk space), or if indexing is configured to be disabled when the computer is on battery power, or if the indexer is manually paused by the user. If the Windows Search (WSearch) service is stopped and disabled, the search function of <a href="/wiki/Windows_Explorer" class="mw-redirect" title="Windows Explorer">Windows Explorer</a> is still usable but search speed maybe slower.</li></ol> <div class="mw-heading mw-heading3"><h3 id="Advanced_Query_Syntax">Advanced Query Syntax</h3><span class="mw-editsection"><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">[</span><a href="/w/index.php?title=Windows_Search&action=edit&section=4" title="Edit section: Advanced Query Syntax"><span>edit</span></a><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">]</span></span></div> <p><span class="anchor" id="AQS"></span>Windows Search queries are specified in <i>Advanced Query Syntax</i> (AQS) which supports not only simple text searches but provides advanced property-based query operations as well.<sup id="cite_ref-AQSRef_23-0" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-AQSRef-23"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>23<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> AQS defines certain keywords which can be used to refine the search query, such as specifying <a href="/wiki/Boolean_logic" class="mw-redirect" title="Boolean logic">Boolean</a> operations on searched terms (AND, OR, NOT) as well as to specify further filters based on file <a href="/wiki/Metadata" title="Metadata">metadata</a> or file type. It can also be used to limit results from specific information stores like regular files, offline files cache, or email stores. File type specific operators are available as well.<sup id="cite_ref-24" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-24"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>24<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> Windows Desktop Search also supports <a href="/wiki/Wildcard_character" title="Wildcard character">wildcard</a> prefix matching searches.<sup id="cite_ref-25" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-25"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>25<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> It also includes several <a href="/wiki/SQL" title="SQL">SQL</a>-like operators like <i>GROUP BY</i>. AQS is locale dependent and uses different keywords in international versions of Windows 7. </p> <div class="mw-heading mw-heading2"><h2 id="Programmability">Programmability</h2><span class="mw-editsection"><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">[</span><a href="/w/index.php?title=Windows_Search&action=edit&section=5" title="Edit section: Programmability"><span>edit</span></a><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">]</span></span></div> <p>Users can access the Windows Search index programmatically using <a href="/wiki/.NET_Framework" title=".NET Framework">managed</a> as well as <a href="/wiki/Win32" class="mw-redirect" title="Win32">native</a> code.<sup id="cite_ref-26" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-26"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>26<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> Native code connects to the index catalog by using a <i>Data Source Object</i> retrieved from the Indexing Service <a href="/wiki/OLE_DB" title="OLE DB">OLE DB</a> provider. Managed code use the <i>MSIDXS</i> <a href="/wiki/ADO.NET" title="ADO.NET">ADO.NET</a> provider. One can query a catalog on a remote machine by specifying a <a href="/wiki/Path_(computing)#Uniform_Naming_Convention" title="Path (computing)">UNC</a> path. Programmers specify the criteria for searches using <a href="/wiki/SQL" title="SQL">SQL</a>-like syntax. The SQL query can either be created by hand, or by using an implementation of the <code>ISearchQueryHelper</code> <a href="/wiki/Interface_(object-oriented_programming)" title="Interface (object-oriented programming)">interface</a>. Windows Search provides implementations of the interface to convert an AQS or NQS queries to their SQL counterpart.<sup id="cite_ref-wsdpo_27-0" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-wsdpo-27"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>27<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup><sup id="cite_ref-28" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-28"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>28<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> </p><p>The OLE DB/SQL API implements the functionality for searching and querying across the indices and property stores. It uses a variant of SQL in which to represent the query (regular SQL with certain restrictions) and returns results as OLE DB <i>Rowsets</i>.<sup id="cite_ref-bgsearch_22-6" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-bgsearch-22"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>22<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> Whenever a query executes, the parts of the index it used are temporarily cached so that further searches filtering the result set need not access the disk again, in order to improve performance. Windows Search stores its index in an <a href="/wiki/Extensible_Storage_Engine" title="Extensible Storage Engine">Extensible Storage Engine</a> file named <code>Windows.edb</code> that exists, by default, in the <code> \ProgramData\Microsoft\Search\Data\Applications\Windows\</code> folder at the root of the system drive in Windows Vista or in later versions of Windows. (The corresponding location in Windows XP is <code>\All Users\Application Data\Microsoft\Search\Data\Applications\Windows\</code> inside the <code>Documents and Settings</code> folder.) </p><p>The index store, called <i>SystemIndex</i>, contains all retrievable Windows IPropertyStore values for indexed items. Within the SystemIndex folder lurk <style data-mw-deduplicate="TemplateStyles:r886049734">.mw-parser-output .monospaced{font-family:monospace,monospace}</style><span class="monospaced">SystemIndex.*.Crwl</span> and <link rel="mw-deduplicated-inline-style" href="mw-data:TemplateStyles:r886049734"><span class="monospaced">SystemIndex.*.gthr</span> files.<sup id="cite_ref-29" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-29"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>29<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> The names and locations of documents in the system are exposed as a table with the column names <i>System. ItemName</i> and <i>System. ItemURL</i> respectively.<sup id="cite_ref-30" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-30"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>30<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> A SQL query can directly reference these tables and index catalogues and use the <i>MSIDXS</i> provider to run queries against them. The search index can also be used via OLE DB, using the <i>CollatorDSO</i> provider.<sup id="cite_ref-SIP_31-0" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-SIP-31"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>31<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> However, the OLE DB provider is read-only, supporting only <i>SELECT</i> and <i>GROUP ON</i> SQL statements. </p><p>Windows Search also registers a <code>search-ms</code> application protocol, which can be used to represent searches as <a href="/wiki/URI" class="mw-redirect" title="URI">URIs</a>.<sup id="cite_ref-32" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-32"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>32<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> The search parameters and filters are encoded in the URI using <a href="#AQS">AQS</a> or its natural language counterpart, NQS. When <link rel="mw-deduplicated-inline-style" href="mw-data:TemplateStyles:r886049734"><span class="monospaced">Explorer</span> invokes the URI, Windows Search (which is the default registered handler for the protocol) launches the <i>Search Explorer</i> with the results of the search. In Windows Vista SP1 or later, third-party handlers can also register themselves as the application protocol handler, so that searches can be performed using any search engine which the user has set as default, and not just Windows Search. </p><p>The Windows Search service provides the <i>Notifications</i> API component to allow applications to "push" changed items that need indexing to the Windows Search indexer.<sup id="cite_ref-bgsearch_22-7" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-bgsearch-22"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>22<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> Applications use the component to supply the URIs of the items that need to be indexed, and the URIs are written to the Gather Queue, where they are read off by the indexer. <a href="/wiki/Microsoft_Outlook" title="Microsoft Outlook">Microsoft Outlook</a> and <a href="/wiki/Microsoft_OneNote" title="Microsoft OneNote">Microsoft OneNote</a> use this ability to index the items managed by them and use Windows Search queries to provide the in-application searching features. The internal <i><a href="/wiki/USN_Journal" title="USN Journal">USN Journal</a> Notifier</i> component of Windows Search also uses the Notifications API, monitoring the Change Journal in an <a href="/wiki/NTFS" title="NTFS">NTFS</a> volume to keep track of files that have changed on the volume.<sup id="cite_ref-33" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-33"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>33<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> If the file is in a location indexed by Windows Search and does not have the FANCI (<i>File Attribute Not Content Indexed</i>) attribute set,<sup id="cite_ref-bgsearch_22-8" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-bgsearch-22"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>22<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> the Windows Search service is notified of its path via the Notification API. </p><p>Windows Search <i>Configuration</i> APIs are used to specify the configuration settings, such as the root of the URIs that needs to be monitored, setting the frequency of crawling or viewing status information like number of items indexed or length of the gather queue or the reason for throttling the indexer.<sup id="cite_ref-bgsearch_22-9" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-bgsearch-22"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>22<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup><sup id="cite_ref-34" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-34"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>34<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> It<sup class="noprint Inline-Template" style="margin-left:0.1em; white-space:nowrap;">[<i><a href="/wiki/Wikipedia:Please_clarify" title="Wikipedia:Please clarify"><span title="The text near this tag may need clarification or removal of jargon. (September 2014)">clarification needed</span></a></i>]</sup> also exposes APIs to register protocol handlers (via the <code>ISearchProtocol()</code> <a href="/wiki/Interface_(object-oriented_programming)" title="Interface (object-oriented programming)">interface</a>, property handlers (via the <code>IPropertyStore()</code> interface) or IFilter implementations (via the <code>IFilter()</code> interface). <code>IFilter</code> implementations allow only read-only extraction of text and properties, whereas <code>IPropertyStore</code> allows writing properties as well.<sup id="cite_ref-bgsearch_22-10" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-bgsearch-22"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>22<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> </p> <div class="mw-heading mw-heading2"><h2 id="Windows_Desktop_Search">Windows Desktop Search</h2><span class="mw-editsection"><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">[</span><a href="/w/index.php?title=Windows_Search&action=edit&section=6" title="Edit section: Windows Desktop Search"><span>edit</span></a><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">]</span></span></div> <link rel="mw-deduplicated-inline-style" href="mw-data:TemplateStyles:r1257001546"><table class="infobox vevent"><caption class="infobox-title summary">Windows Desktop Search</caption><tbody><tr><td colspan="2" class="infobox-image logo"><span typeof="mw:File"><a href="/wiki/File:Windows_Desktop_Search_v3.01_image_preview.png" class="mw-file-description" title="Screenshot"><img alt="Screenshot" src="//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/en/thumb/5/5b/Windows_Desktop_Search_v3.01_image_preview.png/300px-Windows_Desktop_Search_v3.01_image_preview.png" decoding="async" width="300" height="183" class="mw-file-element" srcset="//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/en/5/5b/Windows_Desktop_Search_v3.01_image_preview.png 1.5x" data-file-width="404" data-file-height="247" /></a></span><div class="infobox-caption">Windows Desktop Search running in <a href="/wiki/Windows_XP" title="Windows XP">Windows XP</a>, with preview pane showing thumbnails of search results.</div></td></tr><tr><th scope="row" class="infobox-label" style="white-space: nowrap;"><a href="/wiki/Programmer" title="Programmer">Developer(s)</a></th><td class="infobox-data">Microsoft</td></tr><tr style="display: none;"><td colspan="2" class="infobox-full-data"><link rel="mw-deduplicated-inline-style" href="mw-data:TemplateStyles:r1257001546"></td></tr><tr><th scope="row" class="infobox-label" style="white-space: nowrap;"><a href="/wiki/Software_release_life_cycle" title="Software release life cycle">Stable release</a></th><td class="infobox-data"><div style="margin:0px;">4.0 / June 3, 2008<span class="noprint">; 16 years ago</span><span style="display:none"> (<span class="bday dtstart published updated">2008-06-03</span>)</span></div></td></tr><tr style="display:none"><td colspan="2"> </td></tr><tr><th scope="row" class="infobox-label" style="white-space: nowrap;">Written in</th><td class="infobox-data"><a href="/wiki/C%2B%2B" title="C++">C++</a><sup id="cite_ref-35" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-35"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>35<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup></td></tr><tr><th scope="row" class="infobox-label" style="white-space: nowrap;"><a href="/wiki/Operating_system" title="Operating system">Operating system</a></th><td class="infobox-data"><a href="/wiki/Windows_2000" title="Windows 2000">Windows 2000</a><br /><a href="/wiki/Windows_XP" title="Windows XP">Windows XP</a><br /><a href="/wiki/Windows_Server_2003" title="Windows Server 2003">Windows Server 2003</a></td></tr><tr><th scope="row" class="infobox-label" style="white-space: nowrap;"><a href="/wiki/Software_categories#Categorization_approaches" title="Software categories">Type</a></th><td class="infobox-data"><a href="/wiki/Desktop_search" title="Desktop search">Desktop search</a></td></tr><tr><th scope="row" class="infobox-label" style="white-space: nowrap;"><a href="/wiki/Software_license" title="Software license">License</a></th><td class="infobox-data"><a href="/wiki/Freeware" title="Freeware">Freeware</a></td></tr><tr><th scope="row" class="infobox-label" style="white-space: nowrap;">Website</th><td class="infobox-data"><span class="url"><a rel="nofollow" class="external text" href="http://www.microsoft.com/windows/products/winfamily/desktopsearch/default.mspx">www<wbr />.microsoft<wbr />.com<wbr />/windows<wbr />/products<wbr />/winfamily<wbr />/desktopsearch<wbr />/default<wbr />.mspx</a></span> <span class="penicon autoconfirmed-show"><span class="mw-valign-text-top" typeof="mw:File/Frameless"><a href="https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q1194815?uselang=en#P856" title="Edit this on Wikidata"><img alt="Edit this on Wikidata" src="//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/en/thumb/8/8a/OOjs_UI_icon_edit-ltr-progressive.svg/10px-OOjs_UI_icon_edit-ltr-progressive.svg.png" decoding="async" width="10" height="10" class="mw-file-element" srcset="//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/en/thumb/8/8a/OOjs_UI_icon_edit-ltr-progressive.svg/15px-OOjs_UI_icon_edit-ltr-progressive.svg.png 1.5x, //upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/en/thumb/8/8a/OOjs_UI_icon_edit-ltr-progressive.svg/20px-OOjs_UI_icon_edit-ltr-progressive.svg.png 2x" data-file-width="20" data-file-height="20" /></a></span></span></td></tr></tbody></table> <p><b>Windows Desktop Search,</b> a standalone add-on made available as freeware, is the implementation of Windows Search for <a href="/wiki/Windows_2000" title="Windows 2000">Windows 2000</a>, <a href="/wiki/Windows_XP" title="Windows XP">Windows XP</a> and <a href="/wiki/Windows_Server_2003" title="Windows Server 2003">Windows Server 2003</a>. </p><p>Windows Desktop Search and Windows Search share a common architecture and indexing technology and use a compatible <a href="/wiki/Application_programming_interface" class="mw-redirect" title="Application programming interface">application programming interface</a> (API). </p><p>Searches are specified using the <a href="#AQS">Advanced Query Syntax</a> and are executed while the user types (<a href="/wiki/Incremental_find" class="mw-redirect" title="Incremental find">incremental find</a>). By default, it comes with a number of <a href="/wiki/IFilter" title="IFilter">IFilters</a> for the most common file types—documents, audio, video as well as protocol handlers for <a href="/wiki/Microsoft_Outlook" title="Microsoft Outlook">Microsoft Outlook</a> e-mails. Other protocol handlers and IFilters can be installed as needed. </p><p>Windows Desktop Search allows network shares to be added to the index.<sup id="cite_ref-36" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-36"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>36<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup><sup id="cite_ref-37" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-37"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>37<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> </p> <div class="mw-heading mw-heading3"><h3 id="User_interface">User interface</h3><span class="mw-editsection"><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">[</span><a href="/w/index.php?title=Windows_Search&action=edit&section=7" title="Edit section: User interface"><span>edit</span></a><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">]</span></span></div> <figure class="mw-default-size mw-halign-left" typeof="mw:File/Thumb"><a href="/wiki/File:Windows_Desktop_Search_deskbar.png" class="mw-file-description"><img src="//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/en/thumb/a/af/Windows_Desktop_Search_deskbar.png/220px-Windows_Desktop_Search_deskbar.png" decoding="async" width="220" height="337" class="mw-file-element" srcset="//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/en/a/af/Windows_Desktop_Search_deskbar.png 1.5x" data-file-width="255" data-file-height="391" /></a><figcaption>Windows Desktop Search deskbar.</figcaption></figure> <p>The Windows Desktop Search functionality is exposed via a <a href="/wiki/Windows_Taskbar" class="mw-redirect" title="Windows Taskbar">Windows Taskbar</a> mounted deskbar, accessible via a <style data-mw-deduplicate="TemplateStyles:r1249182868">.mw-parser-output .keyboard-key{border:1px solid #aaa;border-radius:0.2em;box-shadow:0.1em 0.1em 0.2em rgba(0,0,0,0.1);background-color:var(--background-color-neutral-subtle,#f8f9fa);background-image:linear-gradient(to bottom,var(--background-color-neutral,#eaecf0),var(--background-color-neutral-subtle,#f8f9fa),var(--background-color-neutral,#eaecf0));color:var(--color-base,#202122);padding:0.1em 0.3em;font-family:inherit;font-size:0.85em}</style><kbd class="keyboard-key nowrap">⊞ Win</kbd>+<link rel="mw-deduplicated-inline-style" href="mw-data:TemplateStyles:r1249182868"><kbd class="keyboard-key nowrap">⇧ Shift</kbd>+<link rel="mw-deduplicated-inline-style" href="mw-data:TemplateStyles:r1249182868"><kbd class="keyboard-key nowrap">F</kbd> <a href="/wiki/Keyboard_shortcut" title="Keyboard shortcut">keyboard shortcut</a>. It provides a text field to type the query and the results are presented in a flyout pane. It also integrates as a <a href="/wiki/Windows_Explorer" class="mw-redirect" title="Windows Explorer">Windows Explorer</a> window. On selecting a file in the Explorer window, a preview of the file is shown in the right hand side of the window, without opening the application which created the file. Web searches can be initiated from both interfaces, but that will open the browser to search the terms using the default search engine. </p><p>The deskbar also has the capability to create application aliases, which are short strings which can be set to open different applications. This functionality is accessed by prefixing the <b>!</b> character to the predefined string. For example, <i>"!calc"</i> opens the <a href="/wiki/Windows_Calculator" title="Windows Calculator">Windows Calculator</a>. The help documentation includes syntax for creating application aliases out of any text string, regardless of prefix. This feature can also be used to create shortcut for URLs, which when entered, will open the specified URL in browser. It can also be used to send parametrized information over the URL, which are used to create search aliases. For example, <i>"w text"</i> can be configured to search <i>"text"</i> in Wikipedia. </p> <div class="mw-heading mw-heading3"><h3 id="Releases">Releases</h3><span class="mw-editsection"><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">[</span><a href="/w/index.php?title=Windows_Search&action=edit&section=8" title="Edit section: Releases"><span>edit</span></a><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">]</span></span></div> <p>Windows Desktop Search was initially released as <b>MSN Desktop Search</b>, as a part of the <a href="/wiki/MSN_Toolbar" class="mw-redirect" title="MSN Toolbar">MSN Toolbar</a> suite. It was re-introduced as Windows Desktop Search with version 2, while still being distributed with MSN Toolbar Suite. </p><p>For Windows 2000, Windows XP and Windows Server 2003, it came in two flavors, one for home users and the other for enterprise use. The only difference between the two was that the latter could be configured via group policy. The home edition was bundled with MSN Toolbar, while the other was available as a standalone application. Later, when MSN Toolbar was discontinued in favor of <a href="/wiki/Windows_Live_Toolbar" title="Windows Live Toolbar">Windows Live Toolbar</a>, the home edition of Windows Desktop Search was discontinued as well. The last version available for Windows 2000 is Windows Desktop Search 2.66. </p><p>For Windows XP and Windows Server 2003, version 3.0 of Windows Desktop Search was provided as a standalone release – separate from Windows Live Toolbar. One of the significant new features is Windows Desktop Search 3.0 also installs the <i>Property System</i> on Windows XP introduced in Windows Vista.<sup id="cite_ref-38" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-38"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>38<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> Windows Desktop Search 3.0 is geared for pre-Windows Vista users, hence the indexer was implemented as a <a href="/wiki/Windows_Service" class="mw-redirect" title="Windows Service">Windows Service</a>, rather than as a per-user application, so that the same index as well as a single instance of the service can be shared across all users – thereby improving performance. Windows Desktop Search found itself in the midst of a controversy on October 25, 2007, when Windows Desktop Search 3.01 was automatically pushed out and installed on Windows when updated via <a href="/wiki/Windows_Server_Update_Services" title="Windows Server Update Services">Windows Server Update Services</a> (WSUS). Microsoft responded with two posts on the WSUS Product Team Blog.<sup id="cite_ref-39" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-39"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>39<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup><sup id="cite_ref-40" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-40"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>40<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> </p> <div class="mw-heading mw-heading2"><h2 id="Windows_Vista">Windows Vista</h2><span class="mw-editsection"><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">[</span><a href="/w/index.php?title=Windows_Search&action=edit&section=9" title="Edit section: Windows Vista"><span>edit</span></a><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">]</span></span></div> <style data-mw-deduplicate="TemplateStyles:r1236090951">.mw-parser-output .hatnote{font-style:italic}.mw-parser-output div.hatnote{padding-left:1.6em;margin-bottom:0.5em}.mw-parser-output .hatnote i{font-style:normal}.mw-parser-output .hatnote+link+.hatnote{margin-top:-0.5em}@media print{body.ns-0 .mw-parser-output .hatnote{display:none!important}}</style><div role="note" class="hatnote navigation-not-searchable">See also: <a href="/wiki/Features_new_to_Windows_Vista#Search" title="Features new to Windows Vista">Features new to Windows Vista § Search</a></div> <p><a href="/wiki/Windows_Vista" title="Windows Vista">Windows Vista</a> and <a href="/wiki/Windows_Server_2008" title="Windows Server 2008">Windows Server 2008</a> introduced Instant Search in the Start menu and in Windows Explorer. </p><p>It offers a superset of the features provided by Windows Desktop Search (WDS), while being API compatible with it. Unlike WDS, it can seamlessly search indexed as well as non-indexed locations – for indexed locations the index is used and for non-indexed locations, the property handlers and IFilters are invoked on the fly as the search is being performed. This allows for more consistent results, though at the cost of searching speed over non-indexed locations. Windows Search uses <a href="/wiki/Group_Policy" title="Group Policy">Group Policy</a> for centralized management.<sup id="cite_ref-41" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-41"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>41<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> Windows Search also supports queries against a remote index. </p><p>Windows Search indexes <a href="/wiki/Windows_Vista_I/O_technologies#Offline_Files" title="Windows Vista I/O technologies">offline caches of network shares</a>, in addition to the local file systems. This means if the file server, on which a network file share is hosted, is running either Windows Vista or a later version of Windows or Windows Search 4.0 on Windows XP, any searches against the share will be queried against the server's index and present the results to the client system, filtering out the files the user does not have access to. This procedure is transparent to the user. </p><p><a href="/wiki/Microsoft_Outlook" title="Microsoft Outlook">Microsoft Outlook</a> e-mail stores starting with Outlook 2007, though Outlook 2002 and Outlook 2003 and <a href="/wiki/Microsoft_OneNote" title="Microsoft OneNote">Microsoft OneNote</a> stores are also indexed if installed alongside Windows Search.<sup id="cite_ref-WindowsDesktopSearchOutlook_42-0" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-WindowsDesktopSearchOutlook-42"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>42<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> </p><p>Unlike Windows Desktop Search on Windows XP, the Windows Search indexer performs the I/O operations with <a href="/wiki/Windows_Vista_I/O_technologies#I/O_subsystem" title="Windows Vista I/O technologies">low priority</a>, the process also runs with low CPU priority. As a result, whenever other processes require the I/O bandwidth or processor time, it is able to pre-empt the indexer, thereby significantly reducing the performance hit associated with the indexer running in the background. </p><p>Windows Search supports natural language searches; so the user can search for things like "photo taken last week" or "email sent from Dave". However, this is disabled by default.<sup id="cite_ref-43" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-43"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>43<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> Natural language search expresses the queries in <i>Natural Query Syntax</i> (NQS), which is the natural language equivalent of AQS. </p> <div class="mw-heading mw-heading3"><h3 id="User_Interface_2">User Interface</h3><span class="mw-editsection"><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">[</span><a href="/w/index.php?title=Windows_Search&action=edit&section=10" title="Edit section: User Interface"><span>edit</span></a><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">]</span></span></div> <figure class="mw-default-size mw-halign-left" typeof="mw:File/Thumb"><a href="/wiki/File:Folders_Vista.png" class="mw-file-description"><img alt="" src="//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/en/thumb/7/7d/Folders_Vista.png/220px-Folders_Vista.png" decoding="async" width="220" height="167" class="mw-file-element" srcset="//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/en/thumb/7/7d/Folders_Vista.png/330px-Folders_Vista.png 1.5x, //upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/en/7/7d/Folders_Vista.png 2x" data-file-width="375" data-file-height="285" /></a><figcaption>A combination of virtual and real folders in <a href="/wiki/Windows_Vista" title="Windows Vista">Windows Vista</a>. The <a href="/wiki/Virtual_folders" class="mw-redirect" title="Virtual folders">Virtual folders</a> are recognizable by their distinctive icon and blue color.</figcaption></figure> <p>The search functionality is exposed using the search bars in the <a href="/wiki/Start_menu" title="Start menu">Start menu</a> and the upper right hand corner of Windows Explorer windows, as well as Open/Save dialog boxes. When searching from the Start menu, the results are shown in the Start menu itself, overlapping the recently used programs. From the Start menu, it is also possible to launch an application by searching for its executable image name or display name. Searching from the search bars in Explorer windows replaces the content of the current folder with the search results. The Explorer windows can also render thumbnails in the search results if a <i>Thumbnail Handler</i> is registered for a particular file type. It can also render enhanced previews of items in a <i>Preview Pane</i> without launching the <a href="/wiki/File_association" title="File association">default application</a>, if the application has registered a <i>Preview Handler</i>. This can provide functionality such as file type-specific navigation (such a browsing a presentation using next/previous controls, or seeking inside a media file).<sup id="cite_ref-44" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-44"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>44<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> Preview handlers can also allow certain kind of selections (such as highlighting a text snippet) to be performed from the preview pane itself. In the <a href="/wiki/Control_Panel_(Windows)" title="Control Panel (Windows)">Control Panel</a>, the search bar in the window can also search for Control Panel options. However, unlike WDS, Windows Search does not support creating aliases. </p> <figure class="mw-default-size" typeof="mw:File/Thumb"><a href="/wiki/File:Save_As_dialog_box_in_Windows_Vista.png" class="mw-file-description"><img alt="" src="//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/en/thumb/9/97/Save_As_dialog_box_in_Windows_Vista.png/220px-Save_As_dialog_box_in_Windows_Vista.png" decoding="async" width="220" height="83" class="mw-file-element" srcset="//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/en/thumb/9/97/Save_As_dialog_box_in_Windows_Vista.png/330px-Save_As_dialog_box_in_Windows_Vista.png 1.5x, //upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/en/thumb/9/97/Save_As_dialog_box_in_Windows_Vista.png/440px-Save_As_dialog_box_in_Windows_Vista.png 2x" data-file-width="515" data-file-height="194" /></a><figcaption>A search can be saved to create a <a href="/wiki/Virtual_folder" title="Virtual folder">virtual folder</a> (saved search) with the same query string as the original search inside <i>Save As</i> dialog box in <a href="/wiki/Windows_Vista" title="Windows Vista">Windows Vista</a>.</figcaption></figure> <p>There is also a <i>Search Explorer</i>, which is an integrated Windows Explorer window that is used for searches. It presents the user interface to specify the search parameters, including locations and file types that should be searched, and certain operators, without crafting the AQS queries by hand. With Windows Vista SP1, third-party applications will be able to override the Search Explorer as the default search interface so that the registered third-party application will be launched, instead of bringing up the Search Explorer, when invoked by any means.<sup id="cite_ref-45" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-45"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>45<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> </p><p>It is also possible to save a search query as a <a href="/wiki/Virtual_Folder#Windows_Vista" class="mw-redirect" title="Virtual Folder">Virtual Folder</a>, called a <b>Saved Search</b> or <b>Search Folder</b> which, when accessed, runs the search with the saved query and returns the results as a folder listing. Physically, a search folder is just an XML file (with a <code>.search-ms</code> extension) which stores the search query (in either AQS or NQS), including the search operators as well. Windows Vista also supports query composition, where a saved search (called a <i>scope</i>) can be nested within the query string of another search.<sup id="cite_ref-QueryComposition_46-0" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-QueryComposition-46"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>46<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup><sup id="cite_ref-SchultzQueryComposition_47-0" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-SchultzQueryComposition-47"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>47<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> <i>Search Folders</i> are also distributable via <a href="/wiki/RSS_(file_format)" class="mw-redirect" title="RSS (file format)">RSS</a>. By default, Windows references the profile of the user who originally created a Search Folder as part of the query's scope.<sup id="cite_ref-SearchMelt_48-0" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-SearchMelt-48"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>48<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> This design choice does not prevent saved searches from being shared with other users, but it prevents them from operating on different user profiles. While users can manually modify the contents of a saved search so that the scope references the %USERPROFILE% <a href="/wiki/Environment_variable" title="Environment variable">environment variable</a>, which will enable it to operate on other machines or profiles regardless of the original author, Microsoft has released a <i>SearchMelt Creator</i> utility that automates this process for the user.<sup id="cite_ref-SearchMelt_48-1" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-SearchMelt-48"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>48<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> </p> <div class="mw-heading mw-heading3"><h3 id="Kinds">Kinds</h3><span class="mw-editsection"><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">[</span><a href="/w/index.php?title=Windows_Search&action=edit&section=11" title="Edit section: Kinds"><span>edit</span></a><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">]</span></span></div> <p>With the release of Windows Vista and the Microsoft Property System, the <i>System.Kind</i> property was introduced to express a more user-friendly notion of file type; the new property abstracts filename extensions of items from the system and from the user by grouping these extensions separately and by mapping them to easily identifiable types (e.g., GIF, JPEG, and PNG photographs all are presented to the user as <i>Pictures</i>).<sup id="cite_ref-UsingKindNames_49-0" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-UsingKindNames-49"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>49<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup><sup id="cite_ref-SystemKind_50-0" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-SystemKind-50"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>50<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> </p> <table border="1" class="wikitable center" style="font-size:100%; text-align: center;"> <tbody><tr> <th>Kind name</th> <th>Mnemonics of kind name </th></tr> <tr> <td><b>Communication</b></td> <td><i>Communications</i> </td></tr> <tr> <td><b>Calendar</b></td> <td><i>Appointment</i>, <i>Appointments</i>, <i>Calendars</i>, <i>Meeting</i>, <i>Meetings</i> </td></tr> <tr> <td><b>Contact</b></td> <td><i>Contacts</i>, <i>Person</i>, <i>People</i> </td></tr> <tr> <td><b>Document</b></td> <td><i>Doc</i>, <i>Docs</i>, <i>Documents</i> </td></tr> <tr> <td><b>Email</b></td> <td><i>E-mail</i>, <i>E-mails</i>, <i>Emails</i>, <i>Mail</i>, <i>Message</i>, <i>Messages</i> </td></tr> <tr> <td><b>Feed</b></td> <td><i>Feeds</i> </td></tr> <tr> <td><b>Folder</b></td> <td><i>Folders</i> </td></tr> <tr> <td><b>Game</b></td> <td><i>Games</i> </td></tr> <tr> <td><b>Instant Message</b></td> <td><i>IM</i>, <i>IMs</i>, <i>Instant Messages</i> </td></tr> <tr> <td><b>Link</b></td> <td><i>Links</i> </td></tr> <tr> <td><b>Movie</b></td> <td><i>Film</i>, <i>Films</i>, <i>Movies</i> </td></tr> <tr> <td><b>Music</b></td> <td><i>Song</i>, <i>Songs</i> </td></tr> <tr> <td><b>Note</b></td> <td><i>Notes</i> </td></tr> <tr> <td><b>Picture</b></td> <td><i>Image</i>, <i>Images</i>, <i>Photo</i>, <i>Photos</i>, <i>Pic</i>, <i>Pics</i> </td></tr> <tr> <td><b>Program</b></td> <td><i>Programs</i> </td></tr> <tr> <td><b>Recorded TV</b></td> <td><i>TV</i> </td></tr> <tr> <td><b>Search Folder</b></td> <td><i>Saved Search</i>, <i>Search</i> </td></tr> <tr> <td><b>Task</b></td> <td><i>Tasks</i> </td></tr> <tr> <td><b>Video</b></td> <td><i>Videos</i> </td></tr> <tr> <td><b>Web History</b></td> <td><i>History</i>, <i>WebHistory</i>, <i>Webpage</i>, <i>Webpages</i> </td></tr> </tbody></table> <p>Items can belong to more than one type — a single <i>Music</i> item can also be a <i>Video</i> item, or a single <i>Document</i> can also be a <i>Link</i> — and the Windows Shell can expose items to the user based on these types instead of on filename extensions (e.g., to manage in one operation items of different filename extensions, or to find items without if the filename extension is not known).<sup id="cite_ref-UsingKindNames_49-1" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-UsingKindNames-49"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>49<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> Mnemonics for these types exist (e.g., a <i>Contact</i> item is also a <i>Person</i>, a <i>Calendar</i> item is an <i>Appointment</i>, and a <i>Movie</i> is also a <i>Film</i>). Users can query for items based on these mnemonics as well.<sup id="cite_ref-SystemKind_50-1" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-SystemKind-50"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>50<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> </p> <div class="mw-heading mw-heading2"><h2 id="Windows_Search_4.0">Windows Search 4.0</h2><span class="mw-editsection"><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">[</span><a href="/w/index.php?title=Windows_Search&action=edit&section=12" title="Edit section: Windows Search 4.0"><span>edit</span></a><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">]</span></span></div> <p><b>Windows Search 4.0</b> (also previously referred to as <i>Windows Live Search</i>, codenamed <i>Casino</i> or <i>OneView</i>) is the successor to the Windows Search platform for both Windows Desktop Search 3.0 on Windows XP as well as Instant Search on Windows Vista. It is mainly an update to the indexing components, with few changes to the Windows XP user interface and none on Windows Vista. It added remote query support to Windows XP and Windows Server 2003 based systems, which used to be a Vista-only feature. This allows a user with a Vista client (or an XP client with Windows Search 4.0) to search the index of networked machines which are also running a supported operating system. </p> <figure class="mw-default-size mw-halign-left" typeof="mw:File/Thumb"><a href="/wiki/File:Windows_Live_Search_Center_beta_screenshot.jpg" class="mw-file-description"><img src="//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/en/thumb/5/53/Windows_Live_Search_Center_beta_screenshot.jpg/220px-Windows_Live_Search_Center_beta_screenshot.jpg" decoding="async" width="220" height="152" class="mw-file-element" srcset="//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/en/thumb/5/53/Windows_Live_Search_Center_beta_screenshot.jpg/330px-Windows_Live_Search_Center_beta_screenshot.jpg 1.5x, //upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/en/5/53/Windows_Live_Search_Center_beta_screenshot.jpg 2x" data-file-width="380" data-file-height="263" /></a><figcaption>A screenshot of Windows Live Search Center</figcaption></figure> <p>Windows Search 4.0 was originally proposed by Microsoft's <a href="/wiki/Windows_Live" title="Windows Live">Windows Live</a> division as an application that would unify local and remote indexed search<sup id="cite_ref-ShellBlog_51-0" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-ShellBlog-51"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>51<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> in a new interface. Early screenshots of the program featured the new "flair" interface design seen in other Windows Live client applications of the time such as <a href="/wiki/Windows_Live_Messenger" class="mw-redirect" title="Windows Live Messenger">Windows Live Messenger</a> and <a href="/wiki/Windows_Live_Mail" title="Windows Live Mail">Windows Live Mail</a>. </p><p>Windows Live Search Center could search web services which used the <a href="/wiki/OpenSearch" title="OpenSearch">OpenSearch</a> specification to make search results available as <a href="/wiki/Web_feed" title="Web feed">web feeds</a>.<sup id="cite_ref-FMSBlog_52-0" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-FMSBlog-52"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>52<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> It could aggregate searches from various indexes including the Windows Desktop Search index, <a href="/wiki/Windows_RSS_Platform" title="Windows RSS Platform">Windows RSS Platform</a> common feed store, and <a href="/wiki/Microsoft_Exchange_Server" title="Microsoft Exchange Server">Microsoft Exchange</a> and <a href="/wiki/Microsoft_SharePoint" class="mw-redirect" title="Microsoft SharePoint">Microsoft SharePoint</a> indexes, among others.<sup id="cite_ref-FMSwys_53-0" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-FMSwys-53"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>53<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> </p><p>The first beta of Windows Search 4.0 was released on March 27, 2008.<sup id="cite_ref-mjfoley_54-0" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-mjfoley-54"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>54<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> It included numerous performance improvements to the indexer and brought new features, including previously Vista-exclusive ones, to XP, including <a href="/wiki/Group_Policy" title="Group Policy">Group Policy</a> integration, federation of searches to remote indexes, support for <a href="/wiki/Encrypting_File_System" title="Encrypting File System">EFS</a>-encrypted files and Vista-style <i>preview handlers</i> that allow document-type specific browsing of documents in the preview pane.<sup id="cite_ref-55" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-55"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>55<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup><sup id="cite_ref-ws4kb_56-0" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-ws4kb-56"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>56<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> </p><p> Windows Search 4.0 was released on June 3, 2008, and is supported on XP, Windows Server 2003, Vista, Windows Server 2008 and <a href="/wiki/Windows_Home_Server" title="Windows Home Server">Windows Home Server</a>.<sup id="cite_ref-ws4kb_56-1" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-ws4kb-56"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>56<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup><sup id="cite_ref-57" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-57"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>57<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup></p><div style="clear:both;" class=""></div> <div class="mw-heading mw-heading2"><h2 id="Windows_10">Windows 10</h2><span class="mw-editsection"><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">[</span><a href="/w/index.php?title=Windows_Search&action=edit&section=13" title="Edit section: Windows 10"><span>edit</span></a><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">]</span></span></div> <figure class="mw-default-size" typeof="mw:File/Thumb"><a href="/wiki/File:Windows_10_Search_bar.png" class="mw-file-description"><img src="//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/en/thumb/8/85/Windows_10_Search_bar.png/220px-Windows_10_Search_bar.png" decoding="async" width="220" height="207" class="mw-file-element" srcset="//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/en/8/85/Windows_10_Search_bar.png 1.5x" data-file-width="326" data-file-height="307" /></a><figcaption>The Search bar in <a href="/wiki/Windows_10" title="Windows 10">Windows 10</a>.</figcaption></figure> <p>In Windows 10, Windows Search was added to the taskbar in place of the Start menu in earlier versions of Windows. </p><p>A new landing page was added showing users their top apps and recent activities on their computer.<sup id="cite_ref-58" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-58"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>58<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup><sup id="cite_ref-59" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-59"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>59<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> </p><p>The landing page also provides quick searches provided from Bing for the weather, top news stories, today in history and new movies. </p><p>The landing page also serves as a space that Microsoft can advertise in, such as with the new Chromium-based version of Microsoft Edge. </p><p>A preview pane from within the Search UI was added that supports apps and documents. 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Microsoft Corporation. 13 August 2008<span class="reference-accessdate">. Retrieved <span class="nowrap">1 February</span> 2011</span>.</cite><span title="ctx_ver=Z39.88-2004&rft_val_fmt=info%3Aofi%2Ffmt%3Akev%3Amtx%3Ajournal&rft.genre=unknown&rft.jtitle=Microsoft+Support&rft.atitle=Description+of+Windows+Search+4.0+and+the+Multilingual+User+Interface+Pack+for+Windows+Search+4.0+%28Revision%3A+8.2%29&rft.date=2008-08-13&rft_id=http%3A%2F%2Fsupport.microsoft.com%2F%3Fkbid%3D940157&rfr_id=info%3Asid%2Fen.wikipedia.org%3AWindows+Search" class="Z3988"></span></li> <li><link rel="mw-deduplicated-inline-style" href="mw-data:TemplateStyles:r1238218222"><cite class="citation web cs1"><a rel="nofollow" class="external text" href="http://www.microsoft.com/windows/products/winfamily/desktopsearch/overview/featurecompare.mspx">"Windows Desktop Search: Feature comparison by version"</a>. <i>Microsoft.com</i>. Microsoft Corporation<span class="reference-accessdate">. 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packet</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Windows_Imaging_Format" title="Windows Imaging Format">Imaging Format</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Kernel_Transaction_Manager" title="Kernel Transaction Manager">Kernel Transaction Manager</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Microsoft_Windows_library_files" title="Microsoft Windows library files">Library files</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Logical_Disk_Manager" title="Logical Disk Manager">Logical Disk Manager</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Local_Security_Authority_Subsystem_Service" title="Local Security Authority Subsystem Service">LSASS</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/MinWin" title="MinWin">MinWin</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/NTLDR" title="NTLDR">NTLDR</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Ntoskrnl.exe" title="Ntoskrnl.exe">Ntoskrnl.exe</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Object_Manager" title="Object Manager">Object Manager</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Open_XML_Paper_Specification" title="Open XML Paper Specification">Open XML Paper Specification</a></li> <li><a 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href="/wiki/Windows_Hardware_Error_Architecture" title="Windows Hardware Error Architecture">WHEA</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Winlogon" title="Winlogon">Winlogon</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/WinUSB" title="WinUSB">WinUSB</a></li></ul> </div></td></tr><tr><th scope="row" class="navbox-group" style="width:1%">Security</th><td class="navbox-list-with-group navbox-list navbox-even" style="width:100%;padding:0"><div style="padding:0 0.25em"> <ul><li><a href="/wiki/Security_and_Maintenance" title="Security and Maintenance">Security and Maintenance</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/AppLocker" title="AppLocker">AppLocker</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/BitLocker" title="BitLocker">BitLocker</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Credential_Guard" title="Credential Guard">Credential Guard</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Data_Execution_Prevention" class="mw-redirect" title="Data Execution Prevention">Data Execution Prevention</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Microsoft_Defender_Antivirus" title="Microsoft Defender 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0.25em"> <ul><li><a href="/wiki/COMMAND.COM" title="COMMAND.COM">COMMAND.COM</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Windows_Subsystem_for_Linux" title="Windows Subsystem for Linux">Windows Subsystem for Linux</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/WoW64" title="WoW64">WoW64</a></li></ul> </div></td></tr><tr><th scope="row" class="navbox-group" style="width:1%"><a href="/wiki/API" title="API">API</a></th><td class="navbox-list-with-group navbox-list navbox-even" style="width:100%;padding:0"><div style="padding:0 0.25em"> <ul><li><a href="/wiki/Active_Scripting" title="Active Scripting">Active Scripting</a> <ul><li><a href="/wiki/JScript" title="JScript">JScript</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/VBScript" title="VBScript">VBScript</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Windows_Script_Host" title="Windows Script Host">WSH</a></li></ul></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Component_Object_Model" title="Component Object Model">COM</a> <ul><li><a href="/wiki/ActiveX" title="ActiveX">ActiveX</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/ActiveX_Document" 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title="Windows Mixed Reality">Windows Mixed Reality</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Windows_Runtime" title="Windows Runtime">Windows Runtime</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/WinUSB" title="WinUSB">WinUSB</a></li></ul> </div></td></tr><tr><th scope="row" class="navbox-group" style="width:1%"><a href="/wiki/Video_game" title="Video game">Games</a></th><td class="navbox-list-with-group navbox-list navbox-odd" style="width:100%;padding:0"><div style="padding:0 0.25em"> <ul><li><i><a href="/wiki/Microsoft_Solitaire_Collection" title="Microsoft Solitaire Collection">Solitaire Collection</a></i></li> <li><i><a href="/wiki/Surf_(video_game)" title="Surf (video game)">Surf</a></i></li></ul> </div></td></tr><tr><th scope="row" class="navbox-group" style="width:1%">Discontinued</th><td class="navbox-list-with-group navbox-list navbox-odd" style="width:100%;padding:0"><div style="padding:0 0.25em"></div><table class="nowraplinks navbox-subgroup" style="border-spacing:0"><tbody><tr><th scope="row" class="navbox-group" style="width:1%">Games</th><td class="navbox-list-with-group navbox-list navbox-even" style="width:100%;padding:0"><div style="padding:0 0.25em"> <ul><li><i><a href="/wiki/Full_Tilt!_Pinball#3D_Pinball_for_Windows_–_Space_Cadet" title="Full Tilt! Pinball">3D Pinball</a></i></li> <li><i><a href="/wiki/Chess_Titans" title="Chess Titans">Chess Titans</a></i></li> <li><i><a href="/wiki/Microsoft_FreeCell" title="Microsoft FreeCell">FreeCell</a></i></li> <li><i><a href="/wiki/Microsoft_Hearts" title="Microsoft Hearts">Hearts</a></i></li> <li><i><a href="/wiki/Windows_Ultimate_Extras" title="Windows Ultimate Extras">Hold 'Em</a></i></li> <li><i><a href="/wiki/InkBall" title="InkBall">InkBall</a></i></li> <li><i><a href="/wiki/Purble_Place" title="Purble Place">Purble Place</a></i></li> <li><i><a href="/wiki/Microsoft_Solitaire" title="Microsoft Solitaire">Solitaire</a></i></li> <li><i><a href="/wiki/Microsoft_Spider_Solitaire" title="Microsoft Spider Solitaire">Spider Solitaire</a></i></li> <li><i><a href="/wiki/Microsoft_Tinker" title="Microsoft Tinker">Tinker</a></i></li></ul> </div></td></tr><tr><th scope="row" class="navbox-group" style="width:1%">Apps</th><td class="navbox-list-with-group navbox-list navbox-odd" 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