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Indexer Status Gadget
Indexer Status Gadget
(69 customer ratings)
16739
Free
Version 1.2 made available on 10/5/2008. This addresses a bug which prevented the play / fast-forward buttons from updating immediately when indexing speed was changed.

Features:

* Monitor the current state of the indexer
* See how many items need to be processed
* View the total count of indexed items
* Stop and start the indexing service
* Open the Indexing Options control panel
* View the installed Windows Search version number
* Multiple backgrounds / color combinations

Get back the status and control you had with WDS on XP!

More details and other utilities at: http://BrandonTools.com
Details and Requirements
Operating system:Windows Vista
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lorenz_cuno_klopfenstein
3 of 4 people found this review helpful
Love it
Great (10/8/2008)
Small, nice interface. Very useful.
MickZ2006
4 of 6 people found this review helpful
Love it
Excellent (8/1/2008)
An excellent, really usefull gadget.
MarginalMan
2 of 3 people found this review helpful
Don't like it
Admin privileges required? But I am an admin. (11/22/2008)
No "shielded" options appear (the pop-up label for this button says, "Administrator privileges required for these controls"). Other options all prompt for elevation as needed. No instructions, no help, no forum discussions that I could find for this problem. I suppose I could try logging on as "the" administrator, but life is busy enough already. I'd like a gadget with these features that just installs and works, without any troubleshooting or tweaking. Great idea; these choices should just be READILY accessible in the OS as it ships--as should the option to simply stop the indexer until manually restarted.
Beowshawitz
3 of 5 people found this review helpful
Love it
Awesome, very useful (6/4/2008)
Very professional looking gadget. Works great and enjoy the features very much. Thanks!
CzarPlatt
2 of 3 people found this review helpful
Love it
amaizing!! (5/4/2008)
simply the best gadget ever i can disable the indexing service or activate it with simply one clic :)
guruparan
2 of 4 people found this review helpful
Love it
Nice one (10/13/2008)
Good sidebar gadget....must have to be in sidebar.. looking for more like these!!
Rainald_Taesler
2 of 4 people found this review helpful
Love it
great tool (9/29/2008)
this tool helps a lot with monitoring the index activities. Really good work.
Gidarocha
2 of 4 people found this review helpful
Love it
very (9/25/2008)
Useful
fareedoon1
0 of 1 people found this review helpful
Love it
sidebar search gadget? (5/31/2008)
works very well. is there a gadget that allows search directly from the sidebar?
HåkanSöderbom
0 of 0 people found this review helpful
Love it
Does the job really well (11/12/2009)
I dont know how many times Outlook has told me "all results are not available" because indexing hasnt finished. This nifty tool allows you to raise the priority, or stop, the indexing service, making the waiting so much shorter. I think I discovered a small bug in that pressing "index now" a second time seems to lower the priority. That isnt really logical in the interface, but just a small matter.