Does Indexing Service do any good

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I don't want to sound like a basher but I just can't imagine it does any
good. Any time I search explorer still crawls though the disk one folder at
a time. But I am still a little afraid ot kill it so I'm asking if it ever
does anything good.
My desire to kill it comes from my belief that it is one of the reasons
(clearly not the only) XP sometimes goes so S_L_O_W. Task manager at those
times shows usage at 100% and explorer at 95% to 99%.
Any thoughts?
Thanks,
Chas
 
I don't want to sound like a basher but I just can't imagine it does any
good. Any time I search explorer still crawls though the disk one folder at
a time. But I am still a little afraid ot kill it so I'm asking if it ever
does anything good.
My desire to kill it comes from my belief that it is one of the reasons
(clearly not the only) XP sometimes goes so S_L_O_W. Task manager at those
times shows usage at 100% and explorer at 95% to 99%.
Any thoughts?
Thanks,
Chas
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It's worthless. You can disable it.

- Thee Chicago Wolf
 
Did some tests a while back with XP clients and an NT4 server. The issue was
that the server had a very large file-collection, and opening Explorer
windows onto this took too long. Findings were that the client Indexing
service was of no help at all, it just caused additional overhead on the
client processors but for no advantage. Upgrading the server hardware and OS
solved the issue. Not sure if the OS or hardware upgrade made the key
difference, as the two went-in together.

A quick test of running the Indexing service on the new server itself again
suggested no real advantage but a waste of processor time, so it was turned
off.
 
chasgl said:
I don't want to sound like a basher but I just can't imagine it does any
good. Any time I search explorer still crawls though the disk one folder
at
a time. But I am still a little afraid ot kill it so I'm asking if it
ever
does anything good.
My desire to kill it comes from my belief that it is one of the reasons
(clearly not the only) XP sometimes goes so S_L_O_W. Task manager at
those
times shows usage at 100% and explorer at 95% to 99%.
Any thoughts?
Thanks,
Chas
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I will instead answer that I never use the Windows search tools; they just
aren't fast enough for me. Instead, I use the excellent, free Agent
Ransack. It's fast and does not require indexing.

http://www.mythicsoft.com/agentransack/

HTH
-pk
 
chasgl said:
I don't want to sound like a basher but I just can't imagine it does any
good. Any time I search explorer still crawls though the disk one folder at
a time. But I am still a little afraid ot kill it so I'm asking if it ever
does anything good.
My desire to kill it comes from my belief that it is one of the reasons
(clearly not the only) XP sometimes goes so S_L_O_W. Task manager at those
times shows usage at 100% and explorer at 95% to 99%.
Any thoughts?
Thanks,
Chas
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Here is the single use for it in my experience: I use WordPerfect 9.
If I want to insert a .jpg graphic in a document while not using
indexing service, an error message pops up [Use of this format is not
supported]. If I turn on indexing service it automatically converts
and inserts the .jpg file.

--
Gerald Ross
Cochran, GA

A flashlight is a case for holding
dead batteries.
 
Here is the single use for it in my experience: I use WordPerfect 9.
If I want to insert a .jpg graphic in a document while not using
indexing service, an error message pops up [Use of this format is not
supported]. If I turn on indexing service it automatically converts
and inserts the .jpg file.
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Out of curiosity, have you already applied Service Pack 1, 2, or 3 and
any other related updates to WP9?
http://www.corel.com/servlet/Satellite/us/en/Content/1153321224268?pid=1208716793655

- Thee Chicago Wolf
 
Thee said:
Here is the single use for it in my experience: I use WordPerfect 9.
If I want to insert a .jpg graphic in a document while not using
indexing service, an error message pops up [Use of this format is not
supported]. If I turn on indexing service it automatically converts
and inserts the .jpg file.
Click to expand...

Out of curiosity, have you already applied Service Pack 1, 2, or 3 and
any other related updates to WP9?
http://www.corel.com/servlet/Satellite/us/en/Content/1153321224268?pid=1208716793655

- Thee Chicago Wolf
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It has always done this way. I found it by accident. Yes, SP1, SP2,
SP3 and All updates to WP9. By messing around with it, I found that
it is only necessary to have indexing service on the directory
(folder) containing the .jpg files. Weird.
 
It has always done this way. I found it by accident. Yes, SP1, SP2,
SP3 and All updates to WP9. By messing around with it, I found that
it is only necessary to have indexing service on the directory
(folder) containing the .jpg files. Weird.
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Yes, that is odd to have to have it only on the directory where
there's jpg files. It almost sounds like WP9 has a proprietary
component in it or something. Sorry I couldn't help more.

- Thee Chicago Wolf
 
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