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chronovore) wrote2009-06-16 10:59 am
chronovore) wrote2009-06-16 10:59 am
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"googleplexed" means" perplexed by Google"
Lost ½ an hour to searching google for how to get Google Desktop to allow me to search my desktop by default, rather than search web by default. Apparently the feature was deprecated between the last upgrade I had (which probably kept the registry keys) and a recent series of application crashes which necessitated an uninstall/reinstall of GD, wherein my legacied option edits and the feature itself were actively disappeared by the Google sekrit police.
Solution found! Ostensibly from here, though I had to google google's cached data to find out how to google my desktop. I'm a-goggle:
On a side note, as un-fun and queasy-making as directly editing your Windows Registry is, it is even less fun to navigate in Japanese.
Solution found! Ostensibly from here, though I had to google google's cached data to find out how to google my desktop. I'm a-goggle:
I swore that Google Desktop used to provide a means for setting it to search the desktop by default, instead of the web. Jess confirmed this for me. He's running version 5.1.0707 and I'm running version 5.7.0712. I guess they decided to take this feature away for some reason. Jess found the option on the 'Display' tab of the desktop preferences. But the option isn't there for me.
I decided to jump into the registry to see if anything jumped out at me. Sure enough, something did. The key HKEY_CURRENT_USER\Software\Google\Google Desktop\Deskbar has REG_SZ setting for "search_type." The value was "Search Web" and I changed it to "Search Desktop." This immediately went into effect and I am now searching my desktop by default from the deskbar.
I decided to jump into the registry to see if anything jumped out at me. Sure enough, something did. The key HKEY_CURRENT_USER\Software\Google\Google Desktop\Deskbar has REG_SZ setting for "search_type." The value was "Search Web" and I changed it to "Search Desktop." This immediately went into effect and I am now searching my desktop by default from the deskbar.
On a side note, as un-fun and queasy-making as directly editing your Windows Registry is, it is even less fun to navigate in Japanese.
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So instead of creating a new google account, I just associated it with my account. Figured I'd change the password and share it with my partner.
Wrong.
when you click the 'change password' in YouTube, it takes you to your google account manager. To change your YouTube passwords you, yup, got to change your google one instead.
If I give him the YouTube password I give him my google account. And that would be weird.
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Just delete the YouTube account, create a new one and associate it with a new google ID. Problem solved?
By the way, I don't think you can call the YouTube/Google relationship incestuous. Since Google bought YouTube, they're the same company. You could probably call that... "masturbatory"?
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Er, yeah, I should stop; I'm reading Charlie Stross' unpublished "Scratch Monkey," and the single, constant, grating thing he does is to trot out 20 dollar words where another would have been more accessible and, thus, appropriate. Makes me want to say, "CHARLIE, WE ALREADY KNOW YOU'RE SMART. IT'S OK."