I want to get the search box back in Windows 7 without having to enable the Windows Search service. Is there a registry key to make it behave like in Vista, so I can just do searches on the fly without having some pesky indexing service running in the background?
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I want to get the search box back in Win7 without having to enable the Windows Search service.
this is not possible. Windows Search is required for the Search box to function.
however, you can enable Windows Search and disable indexing separately. but searches will be signifacantly slower.
Alternatively, you may want to have a look at Voidtool's Everything, taking Windows desktop search to a whole new level, unrivaled in speed and capability.
Everything is freeware, a portable version is available.
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