OT-Indexing question

I've seen folks recommend unchecking the indexing service.
Two questions:

1) What does indexing do (hence, what are the advantages of indexing).

2) What are the advantages of unchecking that box. Would it speed boot-up
time?

Mel

it will speed up boot time.
it basically helps the operating system find files faster if you do a
lot of searching. it is suppose to work better, however, i find that in
many cases, it doenst really work as it should, and it still doesnt find
files that i know are there. so we all just ignore it and turn it off.


MZB wrote:
> I've seen folks recommend unchecking the indexing service.
> Two questions:
>
> 1) What does indexing do (hence, what are the advantages of indexing).
>
> 2) What are the advantages of unchecking that box. Would it speed boot-up
> time?
>
> Mel
>
>

If you use the XP or Vista Search function a lot (hourly), then that one
feature is faster. Turning it off stops a background task from running.

Won't help boot time, as it doesn't load until it is booted.

> -----Original Message-----
> From: MZB [mailto:moo@noway.prudigy.net]
> Posted At: Saturday, July 26, 2008 1:53 PM
> Posted To: alt.sys.pc-clone.dell
> Conversation: OT-Indexing question
> Subject: OT-Indexing question
>
> I've seen folks recommend unchecking the indexing service.
> Two questions:
>
> 1) What does indexing do (hence, what are the advantages of indexing).
>
> 2) What are the advantages of unchecking that box. Would it speed
boot-
> up
> time?
>
> Mel

On Sat, 26 Jul 2008 14:53:06 -0400, "MZB" <moo@noway.prudigy.net>
wrote:

>I've seen folks recommend unchecking the indexing service.
>Two questions:
>
>1) What does indexing do (hence, what are the advantages of indexing).
>
>2) What are the advantages of unchecking that box. Would it speed boot-up
>time?
>
>Mel
>

Theory is..... It is used to help speed up the "windows" search
function (cataloging each file I believe to find later). I read that
disabling it should speed up the OS tho I didn't read anything about
the boot up.

Recently I disabled mine on a XP system using a core2duo chip and I
could see a slight increase in speed tho no big difference. I can't
see any difference in my boot up. I can't comment about Vista. I
wonder tho if the performance difference is greater in Vista vs XP ?

I don't agree it will speed up boot time. It is a background task the
starts after XP/Vista is loaded. How will that help boot time?

> -----Original Message-----
> From: JayB [mailto:JayB@audiman.net]
> Posted At: Saturday, July 26, 2008 2:26 PM
> Posted To: alt.sys.pc-clone.dell
> Conversation: OT-Indexing question
> Subject: Re: OT-Indexing question
>
> it will speed up boot time.
> it basically helps the operating system find files faster if you do a
> lot of searching. it is suppose to work better, however, i find that
> in
> many cases, it doenst really work as it should, and it still doesnt
> find
> files that i know are there. so we all just ignore it and turn it
off.
>
>
> MZB wrote:
> > I've seen folks recommend unchecking the indexing service.
> > Two questions:
> >
> > 1) What does indexing do (hence, what are the advantages of
> indexing).
> >
> > 2) What are the advantages of unchecking that box. Would it speed
> boot-up
> > time?
> >
> > Mel
> >
> >

"Tom Scales" <tjscales@gmail.com> wrote in message
news:0DBF34BF5D65459181FBCF713A3D32CE@M2010...
>I don't agree it will speed up boot time. It is a background task the
> starts after XP/Vista is loaded. How will that help boot time?
>


Agreed.

Also, it seems that disabling indexing/Windows search has a more pronounced
and beneficial effect in Vista versus XP to me.

Again, anecdotal - but the response times in Vista seem very much improved
after turning that service off.