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Interesting, but sorry to say, this is neither a solution nor does it really help. This is not even a workaround, let me explain why:
1) The hotfix does not allow to index contents in a network share (also not if network share that has been tweaked into a library), but just allows a sluggish file search over the network. This takes a lot longer than searching an index and other software can do this a lot better.
2) Even if you do find results on the network, the only thing you will be able to do is search for the NAMES of the files but absolutely not the content. That makes it more or less useless and does not help anyone further.
I have tested this on 2 PCs running Windows 7 64 Bit SP1 (with the latest updates installed) and can confirm that files are only found when searching for the name but no chance when searching for the content.
The hotfix seems to be quite old anyway and I can't install it on both PCs as it says it wouldn't be applicable for my system - I assume it is already part of the later Windows Updates.
I summarize that we had another interesting track but are still where we have been from the beginning of this thread: network drives / UNC shares cannot be added to the search index of Windows 7.
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