In retrospect now it may not have been Google Desktop, although the problem
did seem to coincide with an install. Yesterday 'webdrowsing' (did not mean
to type the latter, but it seemed appropriate so I have left it!) was very
slow and I was unable to use the Explorer address bar. Processor time was
ticking over at >60% and the offending process seemed to be SVCHOST.EXE. A
'Google' seemed to show many reasons for this, but the general one seemed to
be Spyware. Tried all sorts of remedies - including Adaware, Spybot,
antivirals, de-installing and re-installing Google Desktop. Re-booted quite
a number of times.
In the end I gave up last night and went to bed. Tried it again this morning
and all was well!! No idea what the problem was.
Yes Adrian - I realize one possible solution, and was about to go looking
for an alternate browser.
Best wishes
Paul Bromley
From: GP-UK [mailto:[log in to unmask]] On Behalf Of David Jobson
Sent: 04 December 2004 14:29
To: [log in to unmask]
Subject: Re: Google your own hard drive
> Tried Google desktop last week. Looked useful. Had to delete it today, as
> web-browsing was unuseable. Have others had the same problem??
>
> Best wishes
>
> Paul Bromley
In what way unusable?
I have certainly several times googled only my HD
rather than the web - shame they didn't make the
front end visually a bit more different.
I'm also trialling Copernic Desk Top Search, running
both in parallel. On the whole I think copernic is
better if only 'cos of searching PDFs.
But both are fantastic for finding files without delving
down directories even when one knows
exactly where the files are.
David Jobson
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