Comments on: How to disable Vista’s desktop search indexing (Windows Search)

By: sonia

sonia — Wed, 16 Sep 2009 11:27:32 +0000

simply download a tool from http://uninstall-windows-search.blogspot.com/

and after 2 clicks its removed. No knowledge needed

By: RePete

RePete — Sun, 06 Sep 2009 21:19:44 +0000

Thank you very much…

By: Przemek

Przemek — Sun, 31 May 2009 08:52:19 +0000

Thank you for your article – worked like a miracle. I can’t hear my HDD anymore unless I start a memory-consuming apps. Great job!

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Mon, 25 May 2009 00:20:40 +0000

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By: Suzette

Suzette — Thu, 14 May 2009 16:14:25 +0000

Wow wow wow, thanks so much, and whatever they say about the Vista indexing not interfering when one is using the pc, my pc is now super better since switching it off. I cannot believe the difference. IT DOES KEEP RUNNING ALL THE TIME or perhaps because i don’t play games and things, Vista thinks my resources are low enough for it to index – making even navigating in a simple spreadsheet slow…

I’m so glad i found this article thank you so much.

By: De

De — Sat, 02 May 2009 09:54:01 +0000

Thanks in advance for the tip. But I got a german vista so anyone can tell me how to do it in german vista

By: Covenant

Covenant — Wed, 08 Apr 2009 20:00:30 +0000

Windows 7 is everything you ever wanted … and more.
Windows 7 will make your secret wishes come true.
Windows 7 will be the very cause for world peace …

… *kneed down and folds hands*

Our Bill, who art in Microsoft,
hallowed be thy OS.
Thy Escrow come,
thy build be done,
on earth as it is in Se7en
Give us this leak our daily fix.
And forgive us our torrent abuse,
as we forgive those who wont share this info.
And lead us not into temptation,
but deliver us from Vista.
For thine is the Se7ev, the power and the performance. for ever and ever.

Amen

By: stalker

stalker — Wed, 08 Apr 2009 17:52:44 +0000

That is what my point was. Unfortunately Vista is a beast, like you have pointed out, and consumes lots of system resource. Vistas Glassy look is bullshit, it consumes 700mb ram and 500 mhz cpu power in idle mode and nobody really needs that kind of desktop at that cost.

Indexing is coded with same mentality with the aero interface; consume lots of computing power, cache everything, make people to upgrade their PC!…

Me (it came with my Toshiba laptop and I am unable to get rid of it and I am very angry to Toshiba) and lots of Vista users prefer to shutdown indexing service to gain extra Hdd speed and CPU power among long battery life (or low energy consuming).

I am hearing lots of satifaction whispers about Windows 7. I am hopeful about it.

By: danep

danep — Tue, 07 Apr 2009 21:11:50 +0000

Hi Stalker

1. Not functional?? I type, its there instantly. How is that not functional? It’s the best and most important part of Vista, which is so much better security wise than XP.

2. Cost so much space?? Are you nuts. The size and cost of HD’s today should stop anyone making that ludicrous comment immediately. I have a Raid5 TB system so space is is not a problem. This is why I commented on Colby’s nonsense. He just needed to give it time to index what is a huge amount of data. Yes there are other search indexers out there but I like the way this one is tied into everything in Vista including the file system and email in Outlook etc.

I would agree that if you have a low spec system and lots of data then the indexer can be slow. But if you only have a half decent system then there’s absolutely no reason to complain. Just impatience. But granted, Vista is a beast and we can but look forward to the more svelte like Win7.

Like MS though, I blame many manufacturers who load all kinds of shit onto their PC’s and Laptops that reduce it to a crawl when you first turn them on. Hopefully they will have learnt their lesson with Win7.

By: stalker

stalker — Tue, 07 Apr 2009 19:07:09 +0000

Danep, Why do you so eagerly need to index your data? new Hdds are already enough fast to perfom searches over tham and there are much more quality third party search programs for fast searches. Why you are sticking to mic.* indexing service which is definately not functional?

and you have to know that indexing service costs much more space because of Gigs/TBs of indexed files.

result; according to me indexing is one of the worst idea that mic.* came with (the worst idea of mic.* is definately Vista!…

By: danep

danep — Tue, 07 Apr 2009 18:30:45 +0000

Colby you are a tw**. With that much data the indexer is gonna take time to index it. Some people just don’t deserve a decent raid PC. The search indexer is the best thing about Vista if everyone would just give it time to do it’s thang.But as usual all we get are impatient airheads. The first incarnation of the indexer which was slow took about a week to index my 500GB of data whilst I used the PC. The newer version though just took a couple of hours. For 7TB you are looking at a few days if you also intend using the PC. Best leave it on overnight for the indexer to do it’s job. Also remember to turn off the other Vista stuff such as the daily Virus scans etc.

By: Covenant

Covenant — Tue, 07 Apr 2009 18:11:02 +0000

Hi, for those who want to calm down their HDD as much as possible, please check my little collection of Windows tweaks (pdf file):

http://www.mediafire.com/download.php?injyghjmmnj

Just be aware that you know what each modification of your OS does, BEFORE you apply it.
If you’re not sure, then please rather don’t use it.
Some changes do have significant impact of how an OS behaves.
In case of doubts, just do a little research (google) and decide for yourself.

By: Colby

Colby — Tue, 07 Apr 2009 17:21:52 +0000

All of you that don’t think that indexing isn’t slowing down your systems, then you don’t have much on your PC. I have 12gig, IC7 chip, and about 8TB’s of drive space. At least 7tb’s are filled up of that drive, they are in a raid and I’m using a high end RAID card. Indexing did nothing but slow my pc down. Creating new files took almost a min, rename a folder, another min of time wasted. Turned off all indexing, search and everything else, now when I recreate a file it takes 1sec if that.

Basically when it boils down t it, Vista is a pile of shi*. I get much better speeds from windows 7 and XP.

By: jmmp

jmmp — Fri, 03 Apr 2009 15:14:17 +0000

Yup, thanks – What a relief!!

By: Larry

Larry — Fri, 20 Feb 2009 02:10:39 +0000

Thanks a lot for the post!!!!!!!

By: A

Thu, 29 Jan 2009 20:20:10 +0000

Thanks much for the third tip.

By: MikeS

MikeS — Tue, 20 Jan 2009 21:43:11 +0000

Thanks.

I recently installed a simple Vista File server for the family. Nothing major. It had a few TB of HDD space, networked to all the pc’s/devices in the house.

I’ve got hundreds of Gigs of photo’s, music, family movies, and so on on this computer. Backed up over several drives.

This indexing service was running constantly for a week.

That’s a WEEK of solid I/O hits. The Drives never stopped chattering. For one, it was slowing down my file transfers. Being the server for 6 heavy users, it was constantly reindexing folder after folder after folder.

After turning it off, I was able to see the I/O’s drop from 5-15mb/s to almost 0 when nothing was running.

Thanks.

By: Covenant

Covenant — Sun, 11 Jan 2009 19:35:17 +0000

Hello, just wanna say THANK YOU VERY MUCH for the tips.
Having a 1 TB hard drive, I certainly appreciate the hdd being calm now and not always being busy like crazy.

Think about the shorter lifetime of the hdd when busy constantly. As long as Solid State hasn’t become the new standard, our hdds are spinning non-stop when in operation.

Many of us have important data.
Switching this stupid indexing off extends the lifetime AND makes our PCs quiter too … YAY !!

PS: Also thanks to “Kumkie” for his tip.
You are all awesome (except those who say that this article was wrong.
Google is awesome too, because it lead me to this page.

By: VG for Sybase ASE

VG for Sybase ASE — Wed, 31 Dec 2008 09:27:45 +0000

Who says it doesn’t works. It works n i can c the result. M doing this and the result was in front of me.

By: Justin

Justin — Tue, 02 Dec 2008 19:57:57 +0000

Thanks for the post, still useful 18 months later! Those who say it has no impact on performance are missing something, I had to recover a Vista install on a Dell PC, its dual core & all that but borderline on RAM, so what with Antivirus scanning, the system hitting the swap file and indexing running it was on its knees for days. Once index was complete (supposedly) all went quiet, next boot its disk crashing again. Carried out this article and all is well. If you’re borderline with RAM then disable the index. Hopefully the owner of this PC will buy some extra RAM.