google desktop search!

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Kenny S

I installed google desktop search and then when I tried to use the XP search
I no longer have the dog and the XP search interface. I want that bach and
to be able to use google desktop from the webbrowser.



Thanks in advance
 
Hi Kenny,

Perhaps what you are seeking is the Google Toolbar and not the Google
Desktop Search:
http://toolbar.google.com/

See if there is an entry for Google Desktop Search in Control Panel>Add or
Remove Programs, and if there is, click on it and then click on the Remove
button. You can also run the uninstaller for Google Desktop Search via
Start>Programs>Google Desktop Search>Uninstall Google Desktop Search. Once
the Google Desktop Search has been uninstalled, and you've restarted your
computer, see if you now have the dog and the XP search interface.



Regards,
 
Google desktop search is a dangerous app unless you filter what it searches
for. Read up on it. I can never understand why people just install any junk
that's free? Uninstall the crap!
Frank L
 
Before I install this "crap", perhaps you could explain why it's dangerous
or point me somewhere to read up on it.
 
Lindsay said:
Before I install this "crap", perhaps you could explain why it's dangerous
or point me somewhere to read up on it.
Click to expand...

Install it and you tell us.

Heh.

Alias
 
I have not heard any bad news on using Google Desktop and I have not
installed it.

What is so bad about Google Desktop? Could you provide a couple of
examples?
 
Not sure I want Google to be indexing my computer. YMMV. I have no problem
finding anything on my computer with the tools that come with XP.

Alias
 
I recently wrote the first draft of an article intended for a magazine. It
was saved as a Word document. I could not find it anywhere on my computer
when I wanted it. So I used Google Desktop search engine with the keyword of
the unusual name of the subject of the article. Even then Desktop could only
indicate that there had been a file, but could not open it. But, as with
Google's main search engine, it had a refernce to cached itmes. I clicked on
that and the original text of my article appeared.

I think Desktop is great.
 
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