Legacy Update: Get back online, activate, and install updates on your legacy Windows PC

Windows Search 4.0 is an updated component of Windows that enables instant search on your computer.

• WS4 lets you perform an instant search of your computer. WS4 helps you find and preview documents, e-mail messages, music files, photos, and other items on the computer. Please refer to the Knowledge base article KB940157 for a full description of the technology.
  
  Note The WS4 installation process automatically upgrades Windows Desktop Search (WDS) 2.6 or later versions of Windows Search technologies.
  
  This download is for Microsoft Windows XP (x64) Service Pack 2 or higher only. To download Windows Search 4.0 for other supported versions of Microsoft Windows, see Related Downloads below.

Files

Status: Deleted This download is no longer available on microsoft.com. The downloads below are archives provided by the Internet Archive Wayback Machine from the Microsoft Download Center prior to August 2020.

File	Size
WindowsSearch-KB940157-Srv2K3_XP-x64-enu.exe SHA1: 774aa531cfd4d7f7baf3d2b8011f4da551975bf4	8.40 MB

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  1. To start the download, click the Download button on this page and then do one of the following, or select another language from Change Language and then click Change.
  
  
  
  
  • Click Run to start the installation immediately.
  
  
  • Click Save to copy the download to your computer for installation at a later time.