Vista Windows Search Indexer Sidebar Gadget – Do you know what your Indexer is doing?

BrandonTools - Monitor and control the Windows Search indexer from this handy gadget!

“… 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

Additional features with Windows Search 4.0:

• Enable "Index Now" functionality.  This disables the "Back Off" functionality of the indexer for faster indexing.

…”

I recently upgraded a Vista box to Windows Search 4.0 (Windows Search 4.0 Released – Faster, better and happier enterprise player…) and was looking for some “search” info, like status, remaining items, version, etc, etc, and couldn’t seem to find it.

Having this gadget then would of made my life a little easier…

(via Neno Loje's Treasury - Vista Sidebar Gadget to monitor and control the Windows Search indexer)