Windows 7 - Start Menu - Add Libraries to Search in Start Menu

Hi Airbot, I'm new to the forums here, so I beg your pardon if I shouldn't post the question here.

Anyway: in what way is this different from regular search? I mean, when you rise up the start menu, you can already type and search, and it will look into your libraries and indexed folders, right?

The difference is that you can quickly restrict your search to one particular library, is that it?

BTW, very nice tutorial, man! Thanks!

Hi Charlie Brown, welcome to sevenforums,

Pretty much. just a way to have it on your start menu when you query something, if you wanted to look into that particular library.

Hi Airbot,

I installed Google Desktop Search and it replaced "See more results" with "Search Everywhere" which launches Google Desktop Search instead of Windows Search. Sometimes I prefer use google and sometimes I prefer to use the windows search so I was wondering if you knew of a way to add back "See more results" in addition to the "Search Everywhere" so I can easily select which one I want after typing in the search text.

Thanks in advance for any tips!

Hi spifire,

"3rd party protocol handler" in your case Google Desktop.



It doesn't look like it will allow it.
Will have to look into it some more.

Thanks for the reply! Yeah, I saw that and figured it was an either/or thing. If there's no way to have both, I'd be happy to just go back to having only the windows default on the start menu. I can always launch google desktop search from the task bar. I searched around but couldn't find any way to set it back to windows search... well, I could uninstall google desktop search but I'd really like to keep both search options. And unfortunately, the google desktop search doesn't have an option to install it without having it make itself the default search provider.

Any ideas on how to set the default search back to windows without uninstalling google desktop search would be greatly appreciated.

My primary goal is to use the Windows 7 search (start search or "win+F" search) to be able to search my network drives.

I was able to use the Win7LibraryTool v1.09 to add the mapped drives to their own libraries folders.

When I try to search using the windows start search, nothing comes up but if I click "see more results" followed by "search again in: Libraries", then the results come right up.

I tried the procedure listed in the post but nothing changed. I'm not getting any search results from any of my libraries (they don't even show up as links at the bottom with the "see more results" link).

It's not just the network files that aren't showing up either; I have libraries that reference both files on my computer and files on the network. None of the files show up.

If I remove the files on my computer from the library, they do show up in the initial search.

I checked the indexer options to see if it was still indexing but it said it was complete.

Is there some option I don't know about that hides libraries from index searches?

As a final note, I've used google desktop in the past but really don't want to again unless I have to. I prefer not to use 3rd party "background" apps that run all the time when windows has similar functionality built in.