Select Start, Administrative Tools, Services. Is the Indexing Service
set as Disabled, Manual or Automatic. Mine is set to Manual but I never
use it. I imagine yours is most likely set as Automatic. Many users see
Indexing as a resource hog. This certainly was the attitude but it may
have changed.
http://www.theeldergeek.com/indexing_service.htm
Scanning
Scanning is the process of inventorying directories to determine which
documents should be indexed. Indexing Service automatically performs
full scans and incremental scans when they are needed.
Full scan
A full scan takes complete inventory of all the documents in the
cataloged folders and adds them to the list of documents to be indexed.
Indexing Service does a full scan of disk drives attached to your
computer (except for removable devices) in the following situations:
When it is run for the first time after installation
When a folder is added to the catalog
As part of recovery if a serious error occurs
Incremental scan
Indexing Service cannot track changes to documents when it is shut down.
When Indexing Service restarts, it does an incremental scan to detect
all documents that were modified when it was inactive so it can update
its index.
An incremental scan may also be performed if Indexing Service loses
change notifications. This can happen if the update rate of documents is
very high and the buffer used to get change notifications from Windows
XP overflows.
You can manually start a full or incremental scan at any time. For more
information, see To manually start a scan.
Change notification
File system change notification triggers the indexing of files so that
lengthy disk scans need not be performed. Whenever a document changes,
the file system notifies Indexing Service that the document needs to be
indexed again. However, if the document is on a remote computer,
Indexing Service may not be notified of the change. In that case,
Indexing Service periodically does an incremental scan of directories on
those computers.
To manually start a scan
Open Computer Management.
In the console tree, under the appropriate catalog, click Directories.
Where?
Computer Management, Services and Applications , Indexing Service ,
catalog, Directories
In the details pane, click the directory you want to scan.
On the Action menu, point to All Tasks, and click Rescan (Full) for a
full scan or Rescan (Incremental) for an incremental scan.
Notes
OXO
A full scan can be lengthy. If a full scan is necessary, do it when
there is the least demand on the system.
Indexing Service must be running in order to manually start a scan.
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Hope this helps.
Gerry
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