Peter de B. Harrington wrote:
Hi:

After rebuilding Windoze XP Pro SP2 for the umpteenth time, and successfully
intalling Office 2007, I was prompted to install the Desktop Search Engine
when I opened Outlook (aka LookOut) for the first time. The system started
indexing my two large harddrives and I could not use my computer. I was
basically locked out and even the task manager was inoperable. The desktop
search caused an error with lsass.exe that resulted in my system shutting
down.

On rebooting, the system entered an endless loop of BSOD and restarting when
trying to read the device drivers. I suspect that the Desktop Search Engine
installed a corrupted driver.

This problem is so bad that I cannot even boot into safe mode, so I am
hoping that I can resurrect my system with the system CD. I don't know of
any other way to get to the restore points, but when MS hoses its operating
system this badly, it looks like it will cost at least a half a day to get
back to normal.

Any suggestions on fixing this issue are appreciated, but I want to warn
other users to save them from this MS disaster. BTW, when it is installed
it works, it is worse than the default search that comes with explorer.

Best wishes,

Pete





Yes, been there and done that - or should I say "Suffered" that. It
sounds like you had to reset to get our of it (Or wait for a week) and
some damage has resulted to the data on the drive.

I would bear that in mind even if you do get up and running and maybe
invest in something like Acronis to image the drive for future
experimental installations. The Desktop search is absolutely not to my
liking, though it might suit some people - but I wouldn't recommend it
to anyone because I can't see the point.

If you look at your hard drives (Properties) there may be an option set
"Index this drive for faster searching" or similar and that too can be a
PITA, slowing things down considerably. This seems similar in terms of
worthlessness Takes longer ALL the time to index instead of only
taking longer when you are actually "Searching"

Incidentally I suggest Acronis because it's the only one I know from
experience that has excellent tech support and a useful "Always there"
restore utility (or boot from CD) that is another avenue that might help
in future.