I used Google Desktop yesterday, all worked fine.
This morning I installed the two windows updates: Update for Windows XP (KB927891) and SQL Server 2005 Books Online (February 2007)
Now Google Desktop just will not run….
There is a chance the IS guys altered my machine during the reboot cycle…. but why now, and why not an email asking us to stop running the program? I’ve now paid my IS tax, and acknowledged the the IS guys could if the wanted to, in fact they can do anything, but today it was not them that have broken/blocked Google Desktop.
So now it comes down to did MS break it on purpose, or was G Desktop doing something “dodgy”
Update: Thanks to Hemil’s advice I downloaded that latest setup, and now it works. The part of the puzzle the confused me yesterday was the file version on GoogleDestop.exe was 5.1.705.4505, which is the version of the latest setup.
So this is the versions of the exe’s in my Program Files\Google\Google Desktop Search
File
Before
After
GoggleDesktop.exe
5.1.705.4505
5.1.705.4505
GoggleDesktopSetup.exe
4.2006.825.1629
5.1.705.4505
GoggleDesktopCrawl.exe
not there
4.2006.825.1629
GoggleDesktopIndex.exe
4.2006.825.1629
not there
I didn’t think to check the .dll versions… anyway it’s working now.