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RE: Windows Search
By omnicronx on 3/26/2009 2:15:21 PM , Rating: 2
Okay, Windows Search never actually stops indexing. It just keeps going and going, bringing the system to a crawl.
That's not how indexing works.. it should index everything you have specified and stop until you make any changes to the directories in question. It does not re-index everything either when you do so. I once set it to all drives and it took over 24 hours to complete, but after that it would not continue indexing unless you make changes, and even then it is not like it re indexes the entire drive or directory.

Perhaps you are talking about superfetch? which after boot can slow your system down until it loads everything into memory.
Since I know where my data is and have it sorted and organized well, there's no need for an indexed search that brings my system to a snail's pace.
I don't see how this could be true, every OS whether it be Windows OSX or Linux makes use of indexing because it is faster. Indexing is not limited to searches, it will speed up general use browsing of any location that is indexed.

RE: Windows Search
By Bateluer on 3/26/2009 2:35:59 PM , Rating: 1
Windows Search may be broken then, because it also states that it is indexing and tying up CPU time. I am not referring to Superfetch. There is a delay after Vista loads while data is pushed into RAM, but its only a few moments. Windows Search slows the system down until I kill Windows Search.

Vista does its own indexing and the built in search tools are very functional. There's no need for Windows Search, aside from convincing the end user that they need to upgrade.

RE: Windows Search

RE: Windows Search
By Nekrik on 3/26/2009 4:26:01 PM , Rating: 2
apologies if I missed this elsewhere in the thread, but why don't you go into the indexing options and turn it off for drives/directories you don't need indexed. If you have a download directory, or some similar depository where you keep fairly large files (I'm thinking about videos, ISOs, files typically >300MBs), I would try ommitting them from being indexed. Not sure this will fix your issues but it can't really hurt.

RE: Windows Search
By Kary on 3/26/2009 4:40:01 PM , Rating: 2
Windows Search 4 seems to fix most of the problems with Vista..yeh, turning it off seemed the best option to me, too (I'm running Windows 7 and it uses Search 4 and I haven't had a problem).

High CPU usage at random times (while I'm running games...very annoying) to index goodness only knows what (I don't store files in My Documents..I have to many other drives for that)

