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Gregg Hill
Hello!
I have a friend whose search function in Windows XP Pro SP2 has gotten
brutally slow. When he opens the search window and types in a file name or
search for text in a file, then clicks Search Now, it appears to hang with
nothing in the right-hand pane. If it is left alone, the word "searching"
will come up after about five minutes, followed by some results. If he
clicks in the window while it is blank, the title bar switches to "not
responding" for about five minutes, then it searches.
Last week, it worked normally. He said that he was having some problems with
MusicMatch Jukebox and removed it, which is when he thinks the problems
began. We reinstalled MMJ and it still takes ages to start a search. I have
deleted the LowerFilters and UpperFilters keys in the registry.
The indexing service is running, Google desktop search and Windows Desktop
Search are not installed, and the disk has been defragged.
Any idea what could make the search function take so long to start?
Thank you!
Gregg Hill
I have a friend whose search function in Windows XP Pro SP2 has gotten
brutally slow. When he opens the search window and types in a file name or
search for text in a file, then clicks Search Now, it appears to hang with
nothing in the right-hand pane. If it is left alone, the word "searching"
will come up after about five minutes, followed by some results. If he
clicks in the window while it is blank, the title bar switches to "not
responding" for about five minutes, then it searches.
Last week, it worked normally. He said that he was having some problems with
MusicMatch Jukebox and removed it, which is when he thinks the problems
began. We reinstalled MMJ and it still takes ages to start a search. I have
deleted the LowerFilters and UpperFilters keys in the registry.
The indexing service is running, Google desktop search and Windows Desktop
Search are not installed, and the disk has been defragged.
Any idea what could make the search function take so long to start?
Thank you!
Gregg Hill