How to use Windows Indexing Service on Win7 for source code searching?

Question

I have create a indexing catalog for my source code on Win7 but I can't find a tool to perform the searching.. Any pointer? Thanks in advance.

Answer 1

If the Win7 indexing uses the old Indexing service then perhaps it's similar to how it is in XP.

There you can access the search functionality via Computer Management, %SystemRoot%\\system32\\compmgmt.msc /s .

Drill down to Services and Applications -> Indexing Services -> Query the Catalog.

I once made a C# GUI for that. Still have it, called "Find Files Fast". Immediately after, while it was still only in rough infancy, both Google and Microsoft made available indexing-based fast local search tools.

So, another way might be to just download such tool from Microsoft or Google (Google's used Google's own indexing, as I recall, and had/has some privacy issues).

One problem with Microsoft's indexing service is that by default it's configured, at least on XP, to not support queries for ".h" files... Utterly silly, I can't think of any reason why. But it makes it less than ideal to use to search for source code.

Cheers & hth.,