Disable Windows Vista Indexing Service

Posted on Sep 3, 2007 in Computers

Indexes contents and properties of files on local and remote computers; provides rapid access to files through flexible querying language. What did you just say?

Geek translation: If you don’t do a million file searches in Windows Vista you can turn this off for a overall speed boost.

Double-click this icon on your desktop:

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This window opens…

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Right-click your hard drive and click “Properties”. This window now opens…

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Un-check the box “Index this drive for faster file searching” and click “OK”. This window now opens…

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Click “Apply changes to drive (Your drive name here), subfolders and files” and click “Ok”.

During the process you might see an error like this…

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Do not panic, this is a normal error and Windows Vista is fine. If you see this error just click “Ignore All”.

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