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Posted by Richard on September 21, 2005, 8:57 am
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Hi - I've emailed the WDS help people 4x about this, and I get back is an
email from Emer asking 'please send us a screen clip' with no reply when I
do. This is *really* frustrating and makes WDS *completely and utterly
worthless*.
I installed the WDS just fine and the adobe ifilter just fine, gave it a
while to index my pdf files, and it did so just fine. However, whenever I do
a search, get a pdf file listed in the results window, and click it, WDS
tries to show it in the preview window. Only instead of showing me the pdf,
I get the wonderful message "To help protect your security, Internet Explorer
has restricted this file from showing active content that could access your
computer..."
IS THERE ANY WAY TO TURN OFF THIS PROTECTION?
I have the "Allow active content to run in files on my computer" setting
checked under Tools> Internet Options > Advanced and Security section. I
tried a dozen ways to add the .exe file to my Trusted Sites and Local
intranet listings without success. I even tried adding the mark of the web
to a comment field in adobe, saving the file, and reindexing without success.
All I can figure is that Microsoft outsourced the design of the information
bar for SP2 to a treatment facility for sadists. Rich
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Posted by Richard on September 23, 2005, 7:11 pm
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I got a reply from Microsoft WDS Technical Support. They suggested
reinstalling WDS and the Adobe ifilter. I said I'd done that. When I said I
was hoping for a suggestion that was a little more... technical... I didn't
hear anything back.
So, since WDS Support is worthless on this, I'm posting my solution in case
someone else needs it. What I found is that the problem only occurred when I
ran WDS from the Start Menu. It did not occur from the MSN toolbar. Once I
enabled MSN toolbar display, running WDS from the Start Menu worked fine too.
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Posted by Art Schmidt on October 21, 2005, 11:00 pm
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I have the same problem. I've tried uninstalling and re-installing google
desktop search and MSN desktop search and the PDF add-in. Nothing I've tried
has made a dent in this thing.
Richard's 9/23 solution did not work for me.
Anyone else have this problem? Anyone else solved it?
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Posted by Art Schmidt on October 22, 2005, 12:23 am
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I've found a "fix":
Changing the 2300 DWORD value of
HKEY_CURRENT_USER\SOFTWARE\Microsoft\Windows\CurrentVersion\Internet
Settings\Zones to 0 allows active content to run in the Local Machine (My
Computer) zone.
See http://support.microsoft.com/kb/182569/EN-US for much more detail. This
is not an ideal solution as it does open up the system to malicious active
content, but it's the only way I've found to allow the Windows Desktop Search
results window to automatically display PDF previews.
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