Search is sooo slooow

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I'm a long term 98er and still quite new to XP. Have done a few Searches and
just started another. They always go sooo slooowly. Find in 98 always went
much faster then this. What do you spose I'm doing wrong for Search to be
going so slowly? All ideas, comments, and suggestions will be greatly
appreciated. Thanks, K.
 
First thing, check to make sure that the Indexing Service is installed and
enabled.

Check the propterties of the Drive to see if Indexing is enabled. You may
also check each folder for Indexing capabilities by checking Properties ->
Advanced.

The Search and the Gatherer Services create and index file that is used to
maintain data about files and folderss. Search will always check this file
first, then do a RAW scan.
 
Good point about the ZIP/RAR/TZ/TARG thing.

Yes, Ransack rules...

S.Sengupta said:
Stop Win XP from Searching Within ZIP Files
http://www.pcmag.com/article2/0,1759,1573774,00.asp

You may use Agent Ransack.
http://www.mythicsoft.com/agentransack/download.aspx

regards,
S.Sengupta[MS-MVP]

I'm a long term 98er and still quite new to XP. Have done a few Searches
and just started another. They always go sooo slooowly. Find in 98 always
went much faster then this. What do you spose I'm doing wrong for Search
to be going so slowly? All ideas, comments, and suggestions will be
greatly appreciated. Thanks, K.
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don't use Indexing Service - it bites! and, Explorer will only use the
index if it isn't being updated at the time of the search, which is 90%
of the time - totally worthless!!!!

get a "desktop search tool", all free. Yahoo, Google, Agent Ransack,
Copernicus, etc. They're out there....

Google excells at searching "by keyword within a doc", but doesn't do file
name searches all that well (IMHO); A nice feature is that GDS keeps a
cache of prior versions of docs (text only tho); this can save your butt
if you accidentally overwrite a file (but its disk-space usage can get
real large w/ this feature turned on). Yahoo is basically an older
version of X1 (the best of the for-$$ utils), and does a good job at both
kinds of searches, but its interface is cluttered (but powerful!). Ransack
has been around the longest (the original search tool) and has a large
following...

They are all FAST, but do eat up some background CPU cycles. But nothing
like Indexing Service does...
 
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