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On Thursday, 17 January 2013 20:51:55 UTC+8, Sebastien Vauban  wrote:

> - Everything apparently requires to run as an
>   administrator on Windows Vista, 7 and 8 -- I did not have any problem at all
>   under Windows XP

The Emacs annoyances you describe are directly caused by trying to adapt Emacs to the deficiencies of non-Free software.  Perhaps try another tool, such as GNU locate, which does not suffer such problems.