Ploo » speed http://ploo.co.uk Mon, 06 Sep 2010 15:48:11 +0000 en hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.0.1 Disable File Indexing http://ploo.co.uk/archives/111 http://ploo.co.uk/archives/111#comments Tue, 27 Oct 2009 19:42:00 +0000 Theodore Woodward http://ploo.co.uk/?p=111 File indexing is a service in windows that keeps an index of all of the files on your computer. As these files change often (Installing/uninstalling a program, new documents etc) Windows needs to constantly update this index. Windows usually does this when the computer is idle, and can result in unnecessary disk thrashing, and slower [...]]]> File indexing is a service in windows that keeps an index of all of the files on your computer. As these files change often (Installing/uninstalling a program, new documents etc) Windows needs to constantly update this index. Windows usually does this when the computer is idle, and can result in unnecessary disk thrashing, and slower system. If you don’t use the search function very regularly, or you do but can wait a little longer, then indexing can be turned off. Do do so:

  • Go to my computer, and right click on the disk you wish to turn indexing off on.
    Disk Properties

    Disk Properties

  • Uncheck “Allow indexing service to index this drive for fast file searching”

Uncheck indexing

Uncheck indexing

  • This may take a while…

Your computer should now access the hard disk far less when idle.

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