Indexing Service

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Can the indexing service (cisvc.exe, cidaemon.exe) be set to run at
predetermined intervals via the Scheduler? Leaving it set to automatic
seems to cause it to run on some random schedule, even when the computer is
being used (contrary to what it's supposed to do--only run when the computer
is idle), using lots of resources.

Thanks for any help on this one,
Rich
 
from the wonderful said:
Can the indexing service (cisvc.exe, cidaemon.exe) be set to run at
predetermined intervals via the Scheduler? Leaving it set to automatic
seems to cause it to run on some random schedule, even when the computer is
being used (contrary to what it's supposed to do--only run when the computer
is idle), using lots of resources.

Thanks for any help on this one,
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Do you =really= need the damn thing? For 99% of users it is a complete
waste of cpu cycles, and of disk space (for the indices). You need to do
lots of searches (for text string, in just the right sort of files at
that) before you get enough benefit to justify the overhead. And yeah,
it has a really strange idea of what constitutes 'idle'.

Since these are services, I don't believe you can schedule them (I don't
know how .. maybe someone does). I do know how to stop the rot though -
start, run, services.msc, and stop and then disable the service .. and
then turn off the tick-box on each disk volume.
 
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