how to manually index?

[Neerav]

i know its already on in the background but its slow cause of user activity.
is there anyway i can manully start indexing when i can afford to leave my
system idle.

 

[LAB Enterprises]

I don't know about doing that, but I turned indexing off on all my drives
since I almost never search for things using search anyway - I always just
open the folder I need and pull up the file. if you don't use search, there
is no reason I see for leaving indexing on. And from what I understand,
indexing just speeds up searching anyway - doesn't disable it.

Lori

 

[Andre Da Costa[ActiveWin]]

If you leave your PC for a couple days to index the drive, the performance
will eventually get back to normal. I would leave it on to be honest with
you.

 

[Neerav]

"couple of days"
was that satire?

Neerav

If you leave your PC for a couple days to index the drive, the performance
will eventually get back to normal. I would leave it on to be honest with
you.
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[Andre Da Costa[ActiveWin]]

Well, you have to understand, if you have thousands of files, it will not
index everything in the blink of an eye.

 

[Jon]

"couple of days"
was that satire?

It should be 'satire' for 'no more than half an hour'.

The view that it takes a 'couple of days' is an uncorrected fallacy that's
been perpertrating this group since its outset.

 

[Neerav]

offcourse not. i said i'm ready to leave my computer idle for sometime. say
like an hour.

Neerav

 

[alexB]

It is also my understanding, perhaps incorrect, that you can selectively
choose the file extensions you want to be indexed, you can exclude full text
search which will accelerate indexing by a few orders of magnitude and even
exclude folders you do not need.

Am I correct?

 

[NoStop]

i know its already on in the background but its slow cause of user
activity. is there anyway i can manully start indexing when i can afford
to leave my system idle.

Sure. Go and buy some index cards and have at it. Oh yeh, buy a dozen Bics
as well. Hopefully your system will idle long enough to let you finish and
by then, hopefully, Vista will be just a distant bad memory of Microsoft's
attempts at creating an "operating system".

Cheers.

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