Calling Windows Search Programatically
Dec 4, 2009
I have a software application which has a facility to automatically call Windows Desktop Search and pass a search parameter to it. This works fine on XP machines which have WDS installed
For example, you just run this command and WDS will search for every file associated with 'ref123':
"C:Program FilesWindows Desktop SearchWindowsSearch.exe" /url "search-ms://query=ref123"
Now how can I do something similar in Windows 7?
Since Windows Search is not a component part of the OS, it is not longer installed in C:Program Files and instead now consists of 3 different exes which are located in the System32 folder:
SearchIndexer.exe
SearchProtocolHost.exe
SearchFilterHost.exe
Anyone know how this can be done?
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Here is my SysInfo data:
Tech Support Guy System Info Utility version 1.0.0.2
OS Version: Microsoft Windows 7 Professional, Service Pack 1, 64 bit
Processor: Intel(R) Core(TM) i7-2720QM CPU @ 2.20GHz, Intel64 Family 6 Model 42 Stepping 7
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