ADD Network search to Windows 7

Windows 7 does not enable the inclusion of network search other than through the use of it's synch center after making the files always available online. first i do not want users storing data on their computers and second, i do not want users on my network using their disk space for duplicity. therefore, we found the work around.

STEP 1

Windows Desktop Search: Add-in for Files on Microsoft Networks

Brief Description

Now easily search your shared network directories and FAT drive(s) via Windows Desktop Search!

DOWNLOAD HERE

STEP 2

ZORN SOFTWARE wrote code to expand the Library search options.

Win7 Library Tool

Windows 7 libraries are a really useful feature of Windows 7, however unfortunately they arrive in a slighly cut-down form out of the box. Microsoft decided against exposing some really useful capabilities to users, like adding network locations, pretty much the first thing I tried to do. 

Luckily, you can add network locations (and any other un-indexed locations), but it must be done programatically. MS supply a command line utility slutil.exe, candidate for the worst named executable in history. Pretty sure it stands for shell_library_util. Anyway, I decided to write a tool to make it easy to add network locations, and added a few other features as well:

• Add network (UNC or mapped drive) and any other un-indexed folders to libraries.

• Backup library configuration, such that a saved set of libraries can be instantly restored at any point (like after a re-install of the OS or for transfer between multiple computers).

• Create a mirror of all libraries (using symbolic links) in [SystemDrive]:\libraries. This means you can reference all your files using a much shorter path, and also provides another entry-point to your files in many places in the Operating System (e.g. file open/save dialogs).

• Change a library’s icon.

Hopefully it’s easy enough to uses so I don’t have to explain it 

You can download it for free below. (Note: This will only run on >= Windows 7.)

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