How to configure Windows 2000 Indexing Service to use the Neutral word breaker

Some searches against Indexing Service may fail when you use a language-specific word breaker; however, you can use the Neutral word breaker to work around this issue. This "More Information" section of this article explains how to remove the language-specific word breaker so that the Neutral word breaker is used.

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To remove all word breakers except the Neutral word breaker, follow these steps:

1. Start Registry Editor (Regedt32.exe).
2. Locate the following key in the registry:
   HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE\System\CurrentControlSet\Control\ContentIndex\Language
3. Select the Language key, and then save this key to a backup file.
4. Delete all registry keys except Neutral.
5. Locate the following key in the registry:
   HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE\System\CurrentControlSet\Control\ContentIndex
6. Select the DLLsToRegister registry key, and then save this key to a backup file.
7. Double-click the DLLsToRegister value, and then remove the line with the Infosoft.dll file to prevent re-registering the other languages. Click OK.
8. Quit Registry Editor.
9. Stop Indexing Service, and then restart Indexing Service.
10. Rebuild the catalog by doing a full build.

Please note the following differences that occcur when you use only the Neutral word breaker:

• In all languages, "advanced" normalization acts differently:
  • Dates: "9/9/99" and "9-9-1999" do not match.
  • Numbers: "1,000" and "1000" do not match.
  • Hyphens: "database" and "data-base" do not match.
• In German, compound decomposition does not work.
• In other European languages, clitic stripping is lost. Loss of clitic stripping may reduce the chances of matching.
• Word stemming no longer works. In word stemming, a query for "flew**" returns documents that match words like "flew," "fly," and "flown."