Windows Search™ Manager

Utility to manage a Windows Search™ internals.

Features

• Fine tuning of indexed locations (add, edit, delete) including deleting of orphan ones (on unavailable disks)
• Bulk operations
• Direct control of Windows Search™ engine (start, stop, restart)
• Database checking and defragmentation (Windows.edb file)
• Scanning of search volumes GUIDs for duplicates (for example in case of improper disk cloning)
• Nifty context menu

Hotkeys

• F5, ENTER - Refresh location list
• Ctrl+C, Ctrl+Insert - Copy location to clipboard
• Insert - Add new location
• Delete - Delete existing location

System Requirements

• Windows XP or later, 32 or 64-bit.
• Microsoft Visual C++ 2015-2019 Redistributables (32-bit/64-bit).
• Administrator rights optional but highly recommended.

Development Requirements

• Microsoft Visual Studio 2017 Community with components:
  • Microsoft.VisualStudio.Workload.NativeDesktop
  • Microsoft.VisualStudio.Component.VC.ATLMFC
  • Microsoft.VisualStudio.Component.WinXP
  • Microsoft.VisualStudio.ComponentGroup.NativeDesktop.WinXP
  • Microsoft.VisualStudio.Component.NuGet
• Windows 10 SDK 10.0.17763
• NuGet packages (automatically installed):
  • InnoSetup 5.6.1
  • Pandoc 2.1.0

Licenses

Copyright (C) 2012-2021 Nikolay Raspopov raspopov@cherubicsoft.com

https://github.com/raspopov/WindowsSearchManager

This program is free software : you can redistribute it and / or modify it under the terms of the GNU General Public License as published by the Free Software Foundation, either version 3 of the License, or ( at your option ) any later version.

This program is distributed in the hope that it will be useful, but WITHOUT ANY WARRANTY; without even the implied warranty of MERCHANTABILITY or FITNESS FOR A PARTICULAR PURPOSE.See the GNU General Public License for more details.

You should have received a copy of the GNU General Public License along with this program.If not, see http://www.gnu.org/licenses/.

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