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Office 2007 Filter Pack for Windows Desktop Search

Oct. 21, 2008 Paul Thurrott | Paul Thurrott's Supersite for Windows

This one looks interesting: It basically lets Windows Desktop Search (part of Windows Vista, and XP when updated) index the contents of Microsoft Office documents:

Brief Description

This download will install and register IFilters with the Microsoft Windows Indexing Service. These IFilters are used by Microsoft Search products to index the contents of specific document formats.

Overview

This download will install and register IFilters with the Windows Indexing Service. These IFilters are used by Microsoft Search products to index the contents of specific document formats. This Filter Pack includes IFilters for the following formats: .docx, .docm, .pptx, .pptm, .xlsx, .xlsm, .xlsb, .zip, .one, .vdx, .vsd, .vss, .vst, .vdx, .vsx, and .vtx.

Because Windows Desktop Search (WDS) consumes IFilters from Windows Indexing Service, the IFilters will be automatically registered and available for use by WDS.

Thanks Sebatian V.

Discuss this Article 16

lasseespeholt
on Oct 21, 2008
Sounds great, but it should be noted that there are already installed some filters for Office when installed on Vista. I was sure I had searched a Word docx before, so I checked. Best regards
arosania
on Oct 21, 2008
ditto for windows server 2008
Waethorn
on Oct 21, 2008
"Windows Desktop Search (WDS)" Um....isn't that acronym already used by Windows Deployment Services?
DarkSages
on Oct 21, 2008
I wonder what impact it will put on my system that has to many documents to count. Question what ever heppen to winfs.
Waethorn
on Oct 21, 2008
"Question what ever heppen to winfs." It doesn't matter. The instant search functionality is already in Vista, as is the the extra exposure of meta information in the shell, so WinFS doesn't really matter much anymore. WinFS technologies will still resonate in current and future versions of Windows and SQL, even if it wasn't branded as a full feature in Windows Vista by name. BTW: It's snowing.
andy88488
on Oct 21, 2008
Doesn't WDS 4 already have this? I'd be shocked if it didn't.
Delmont
on Oct 21, 2008
Waethorn, What State do you live in for it to be snowing or are you in Canada?
Waethorn
on Oct 21, 2008
I'm in Canada, and it snows less here than it does in Buffalo, which is just on the south side of the lake.
lasseespeholt
on Oct 21, 2008
"Doesn't WDS 4 already have this? I'd be shocked if it didn't." Mostly, but .zip was not installed by default on my system (Vista + Office 2007). But why download this? Could they not just include it in a update with Windows Update...hhm
DRWAM
on Oct 21, 2008
Since my cheapo laptop doesn't have a lot of horsepower, installing these search utilities/apps form MS is not going to slow anything is it?
Waethorn
on Oct 21, 2008
"Since my cheapo laptop doesn't have a lot of horsepower, installing these search utilities/apps form MS is not going to slow anything is it?" It should improve access time to files, as well as finding the folder location of files, so it's safe to install.
Waethorn
on Oct 21, 2008
BTW: It must be a cold day in hell (it is - it's snowing for d0g's sake), cuz I just got a Pentium 2 in for service today. Primary hard drive (Maxtor 30GB slim-height), and both CPU and PSU fans are shot. It also has an 8GB 5.25" Bigfoot hard drive too. On it is a pirated copy of XP Pro. The customer wants to know how much it is to fix it. I should tell them how much it'll cost to dispose of it....
Dipsh t Admin
on Oct 21, 2008
I hated those Bigfoot drives. I'm surprised it lasted this long.
Waethorn
on Oct 21, 2008
"I hated those Bigfoot drives. I'm surprised it lasted this long." I never said it still worked. It was still plugged into power though. I have another system in too: another MDG sh*tbox with an Intel 865PERL motherboard - PSU fan shot, and mobo caps are burst. I just LOOOOVE how they use 40-wire IDE cables and run the *center* connector to the motherboard, and the 2 ends between the DVD drive and the hard drive (limiting the HDD to ATA-33 speed). And instead of actually learning how to properly hook up the front audio port wires to the motherboard, they just put a sticker that says "USB 2.0" over top of them. Gotta love it.
Ocean
on Oct 21, 2008
>>WinFS technologies will still resonate in current and future versions of Windows and SQL, even if it wasn't branded as a full feature in Windows Vista by name.<< IOW, its dead as a doorknob, but they don't want you to think that.
Waethorn
on Oct 22, 2008
"IOW, its dead as a doorknob, but they don't want you to think that." Obviously you don't have a clue about it. They've already adapted the technologies and included many of them in Windows Vista as well as SQL Server 2008. It went from a named feature to a gestated set of technologies, much like how they'll likely adapt technologies built into Midori and the research project, Singularity. Of course, this is in stark contrast to "Pink" - the project that went nowhere.

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