Gerhard Fiedler wrote:

> I gather you haven't used neither Google Desktop Search
> <http://desktop.google.com/> nor Windows Desktop Search
> <http://www.microsoft.com/windows/desktopsearch/default.mspx>. Doesn't take
> a long time to search at all. But as I wrote in my post, for me these are a
> second choice, after tagging with the correct retrieval system. I think
> having an efficient search is necessary, because tagging goes only so far;
> there will always be content that you didn't put in a tag. 

Windows Desktop Search can search for the Windows file system keywords. I
haven't used that extensively, but I think that's what I'm going to use
from now on. Works reasonably quick. 

Does anybody know how/where Windows stores this file metadata?

Gerhard

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