Comments on: Speed Up or Disable Windows Search Indexing in Vista

By: lmd

lmd — Sat, 22 Aug 2009 15:47:28 +0000

Perfect, disabling search indexing fixed the problem. Thanks!

By: It's me

It's me — Fri, 12 Jun 2009 22:43:37 +0000

Windows 7 is in fact a screw up ! I agree with the guy above !

By: Ok

Ok — Wed, 06 May 2009 01:55:49 +0000

You guys aren’t acomplishing much by disabling the service….

Try disabling indexing of your hard drive.

Right click your C drive, choose properties, and disable the bottom checkbox “Index this drive for faster searching”

Then delete your actual index file….this is an option in your Indexing Options in control panel.

The entire Indexing idea is the biggest screw up i’ve ever seen Microsoft do…..ever

Well that and Windows 7 haha

By: Dakota

Dakota — Wed, 29 Apr 2009 21:39:12 +0000

Stupid searching service was taking up a constant %100 of one of my cpus. I’m glad I could stop it.

By: Jim

Jim — Wed, 25 Feb 2009 13:11:50 +0000

easy to stop this service, go to start/run then type msconfig. Go to startup and find windows search and uncheck it, problem solved!

By: Ali

Ali — Thu, 19 Feb 2009 23:29:25 +0000

I don remeber how, possibly using TuneUp Utilities, I have disabled Indexing service on my Vista.

I used to do that from the Services window on Windows XP.

that’s the easiest way.

By: David

David — Mon, 09 Feb 2009 08:33:36 +0000

stupid tool as far as i am concerned, was slowing my pc down immensley still dont get the usefulness of the program.

By: Larry

Larry — Wed, 17 Sep 2008 17:33:20 +0000

The thrashing was starting to drive me crazy. I disabled Windows Search but the thrashing goes on. What is it now?

By: Conrad

Conrad — Tue, 16 Sep 2008 21:26:27 +0000

Thanks for the tip. My box is much quieter, and the hard drive should last a bit longer now that the indexer service is disabled.

Why would Microsoft presume to dedicate so much of our resources to local indexing? I practically never search my own files. If I ever do, I’ll consider starting the indexer…after getting a replacement hard drive ready to go for when the indexer wears out this one.

By: Garrett

Garrett — Sun, 06 Apr 2008 19:44:10 +0000

It took me a few months to get fed up enough with the constant clicking before I checked the Resource Monitor to find out what was causing the constant hard drive use. If this were my primary computer, I probably would have checked it sooner, because it does slow down my video/audio editing enough that I’ve wondered if I should just use my old 500 MHz computer. Also, the midnight clicking gets annoying, especially since no windows are open and I didn’t have any clue as to what was causing the hard drive access.
I only use the search function for the Start menu(wait, is it still called that, or is it “the circular button with no words, but does have the Windows logo”) and files in my user folder(I did a search once… the file I was looking for wasn’t indexed, though, so that search was useless).