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Donald Welker - 26 Apr 2005 14:23 GMT

When I try to locate products using MSDN OFFline Index search on the Index
CD-ROM (or by copying the CD content to disk) the search never ends and IE 6
sits there using about 70% CPU on Windows XP SP2. What do I have to do in
order to make the MSDN Offline Index work?
(IE 6.0.2900.2180.xpsp_sp2_.gdr.050301-1519)

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Donald Welker - 26 Apr 2005 15:29 GMT

System Info:
MSDN Subscriptions Index April 2005
Internet Explorer 6.0.2900.2180.xpsp_sp2_gdr.050301-1519
Windows XP Pro 5.1.2600 SP2

Problem duplicates with any recent MSDN Index CD.
Problem duplicates on Windows 2000 Server SP4 with IE 6.0.2800.1106

> When I try to locate products using MSDN OFFline Index search on the Index
> CD-ROM (or by copying the CD content to disk) the search never ends and IE 6
> sits there using about 70% CPU on Windows XP SP2. What do I have to do in
> order to make the MSDN Offline Index work?
> (IE 6.0.2900.2180.xpsp_sp2_.gdr.050301-1519)

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Donald Welker - 26 Apr 2005 21:14 GMT

Well, I have to correct myself: IE does not completely hang. After about an
hour or so it finally returns search results. I attached the VS2K3 debugger
to prove to myself that something was actually happening.

This is pretty awful.

> System Info:
> MSDN Subscriptions Index April 2005
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> > order to make the MSDN Offline Index work?
> > (IE 6.0.2900.2180.xpsp_sp2_.gdr.050301-1519)

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