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 Feb 26 2008, 09:50 PM
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 Forum Regular  Group: Members Posts: 177 Joined: 31-October 07 From: South Carolina Member No.: 166,746  |
Is there any need to also go to System Drive properties and uncheck, "Allow Indexing service to index this disk for fast searching?" I did uncheck it, and it started accessing files and changing attribs. I stopped it, figuring as long as the files were already indexed, it was okay to leave it that way, and I left it unchecked. Was that an accurate guess? |
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Feb 26 2008, 11:40 PM
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 Senior Member Group: Members Posts: 391 Joined: 23-December 07 From: Wanganui, Aotearoa NZ Member No.: 178,459 |
I disabled it straight after installing windows. In my opinion its just a resource hog, not very efficient indexing. It seems to be constantly all files over and over although I have a lot of file activity on my computer.
One tip for services though, look down the list and change anything that is automatic and stopped to manual. Just so things aren't starting up when they don't need to. -------------------- L&P, World Famous in New Zealand since ages ago!  Avast! Antivirus : Spybot S&D : Trend Micro Housecall : Hosts file : HiJack This Don't be too open minded - your brains will fall out |
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Feb 26 2008, 11:44 PM
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 Visiting Alien Group: Members Posts: 4,030 Joined: 20-May 07 From: millenium falcon Member No.: 131,963 |
after unchecking, then ignore all and let it finish changing attributes
searches have been fine with it off -------------------- |
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Feb 26 2008, 11:47 PM
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Forum Regular Group: Members Posts: 177 Joined: 31-October 07 From: South Carolina Member No.: 166,746 |
Did you uncheck the box on your drive properties too?
Ah, thanks. I was typing this as you answered Chewy. This post has been edited by RknRusty: Feb 26 2008, 11:48 PM |
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Apr 7 2008, 01:00 PM
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Member  Group: Banned Posts: 21 Joined: 1-April 08 Member No.: 200,232 |
I forgot that step myself. So thanks for the reminder.
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