File Search hangs

[Bob]

When I go to My Computer, and do a search, the system hangs. In the taskmanager,
it shows the search not responding. Any help would be appreciated.

 

[Stan Brown]

When I go to My Computer, and do a search, the system hangs. In the taskmanager,
it shows the search not responding. Any help would be appreciated.

Is it actually hanging, or is it taking a long time to get through a
lot of files? "Not responding" can mean _either_ that the program
hanged (hung?) _or_ that it's temporarily doing something very
compute-intensive and not answering Windows messages, but will
respond again when it's finished.

Some details might be nice, like specifically what search you tried,
how much disk space is used, how long you waited, etc.

 

[Bob]

Is it actually hanging, or is it taking a long time to get through a
lot of files? "Not responding" can mean _either_ that the program
hanged (hung?) _or_ that it's temporarily doing something very
compute-intensive and not answering Windows messages, but will
respond again when it's finished.

Some details might be nice, like specifically what search you tried,
how much disk space is used, how long you waited, etc.

Thanks for your interest. I found the problem
to be caused by Indexing service turned on
automatically. It was probably just so slow
it was useless. Changing indexing to manual
fixed the problem. Thanks again.

 

[Stan Brown]

Thanks for your interest. I found the problem
to be caused by Indexing service turned on
automatically. It was probably just so slow
it was useless. Changing indexing to manual
fixed the problem. Thanks again.

Thanks for letting us know! and I'm glad it's working for you now.

I turned off indexing about the first day I had my computer, so I had
completely forgotten its existence.