1224764 - Turning off Allow Windows Search to search messages takes many tries

Status: RESOLVED DUPLICATE of bug 553048

(Thunderbird :: OS Integration, defect)

Description

[Robert Miles]

User Agent: Mozilla/5.0 (Windows NT 6.0; WOW64; rv:41.0) Gecko/20100101 Firefox/41.0
Build ID: 20151014143721

Steps to reproduce:

Under Tools. Options, Advanced, System Integration, turning off
Allow Windows Search to search messages took many tries to take
effect.


Actual results:

Many tries required to make it work.  Most of the previous tries had it turned back on by the time I had restarted Thunderbird and looked at the value of this setting again.


Expected results:

Should have worked on the first try, or told me why not.  Also, there should be an explanation of what this setting does; it appears to control whether searches outside Thunderbird are likely to find Thunderbird messages, with no effect on searches within Thunderbird.

Comment 1

[:aceman]

Can you tell exactly what you checked on/off in the  System integration dialog and which button you used to close the dialog?

Comment 2

[Robert Miles]

We clicked on the Allow Windows Search to search messages box many times; this removed the checkmark in that box, but this would not take effect for long.

However, clicking on the Check Now box under System Integration opened another window with a different Allow Windows Search to search messages box; clicking on that one instead actually took effect.  We killed the Windows Search program at about the same time using Windows Task Manager, so it isn't very clear if clicking on the other box, killing the Windows Search program, or both, were required in order to make the change last for more than a short time.

This problem involved interactions among several programs - BOINC making heavy use of memory, all the CPU cores, and the graphics board; Windows Search accessing probably one file for each Thunderbird message; Microsoft Security Essentials doing an antivirus scan on each file Windows Search looked at; and of course, Thunderbird beta.

Comment 3

[Robert Miles]

I've forgotten which button we used to close the dialog, but probably first Set as Default, then OK.

Comment 4

[Robert Miles]

Our earlier tries using the Allow Windows Search to search messages box directly under System integration almost always were closed using OK.

Comment 5

[Robert Miles]

By the way, someone told me that hovering the cursor over Allow Windows Search to search messages gives a short explanation of what this setting does, although that is too short in my opinion.