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(Solved) - Index Drives

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oXo

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I have just removed the tick on the box for "Index this drive for faster searching" in Properties for my local disk (C:)

obviously (i think!) this will make searching for files slower, but are there any other side effects lol

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madmacs

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Please don´t abuse the report button to seek attention. Thx, Matt

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oXo

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just reported my own forum! lol

what i was trying to do was change it to the Windows Vista forum as that's what I have and not Windows 7 lol

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One side effect may be that your system runs faster. Other than that, no.
I always have indexing turned off.

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