J
Jon
Yes you can stop it indexing your hard disc if you're not bothered about fast
search, it bugged the hell out of me too for two reasons, 1, the noise, 2,
because I run software that requires the computers full resources and don't
want bloody vista taking up all my processing and hard disc resources to do
things I DON'T require or want.
Microsoft should make vista ask you how you want vista to handle search, not
just impose indexing as a default.
To stop the indexing go to Start and in the input box at the bottom type:
services.msc and it will bring up a window with a list of services that run
on your computer in the background, find the service called Windows Search,
right click on the item and then under the General tab select disabled from
the Startup Type drop-down box, also to stop the service immediately click
Stop under the Service status section.
Another background service that may be causing undue hard disc activity is
Superfetch, this service loads a tonne of programs into the computers memory
just 'in-case' you 'might' want to use them, again taking up valuable system
resources and causing the hard disc to go crazy at system startup, to disable
it follow the same steps as above.
I would point out that be careful if you decide to disable any other
services apart from the ones I have mentioned because you could stop a
critical system process and stop your computer working properly.
search, it bugged the hell out of me too for two reasons, 1, the noise, 2,
because I run software that requires the computers full resources and don't
want bloody vista taking up all my processing and hard disc resources to do
things I DON'T require or want.
Microsoft should make vista ask you how you want vista to handle search, not
just impose indexing as a default.
To stop the indexing go to Start and in the input box at the bottom type:
services.msc and it will bring up a window with a list of services that run
on your computer in the background, find the service called Windows Search,
right click on the item and then under the General tab select disabled from
the Startup Type drop-down box, also to stop the service immediately click
Stop under the Service status section.
Another background service that may be causing undue hard disc activity is
Superfetch, this service loads a tonne of programs into the computers memory
just 'in-case' you 'might' want to use them, again taking up valuable system
resources and causing the hard disc to go crazy at system startup, to disable
it follow the same steps as above.
I would point out that be careful if you decide to disable any other
services apart from the ones I have mentioned because you could stop a
critical system process and stop your computer working properly.