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Follow the steps below to disbale file indexing: 1. Share this: Twitter Facebook. Like this: Like Loading Bookmark the permalink. Leave a Reply Cancel reply Enter your comment here Fill in your details below or click an icon to log in:. Email required Address never made public. If you're like most Windows XP users, you've probably read that the Indexing Service is unnecessary and that disabling it will improve the operating system's overall performance.
Although these statements aren't entirely true, most people buy in to them because they really don't understand the benefits of using the Indexing Service. If you regularly search for specific content in data files on your multigigabyte hard disk, the Indexing Service will definitely save you time and therefore can be considered a necessary service. In fact, I have literally thousands of articles in Word documents, and I've discovered that searching for content with the Indexing Service turns up results hundreds of times faster than using a standard search engine.
Furthermore, like a screen saver, the Indexing Service is designed to perform its intensive hard-disk indexing operations when the computer is idle. The service pauses whenever it senses activity from the keyboard or mouse, so it will never drag down system performance when you're using your computer. Of course, like all tools in the Windows operating system, the Indexing Service's default settings can be tweaked in order to improve performance. For example, in its default configuration, the service is designed to search through all the files on your entire hard disk as it performs its indexing operation.
However, the service is much more efficient if you redirect the indexing operations toward the directories, or folders, in which you store your data files. In this blog post, we'll show you how to redirect the focus of the indexing operations and discuss other ways you can configure the Indexing Service so that it performs more efficiently.
Let's begin with a brief look at how the Indexing Service works. To provide such fast turnaround time, the service actually performs a comprehensive search operation during the indexing phase, when it goes through the files on your hard disk and gathers detailed information on each file. As it does, it creates a catalog, or database, of the results. When you run a search operation, you're actually searching through the database rather than searching through the files on your hard disk.
To determine what types of files to search for and how to search them, the Indexing Service uses a set of preconfigured filters.
By default, the service comes with filters for HTML files, text files, and all files created by Microsoft Office , including e-mail. The filter also allows the service to isolate the meaningful text from other content in the document, such as header and formatting information.
In addition to using filters to determine how to search a file, the service has a list of noise words -- words that don't need to be indexed. Words in the noise list include prepositions, common verbs, conjunctions, pronouns, individual letters, and numbers.
The service also gathers other pertinent information about the file. For example, it indexes standard information, such as file size, time and date stamp, and file type. More detailed information about a document includes word count, author, or even the last time the document was printed. As its name implies, the Change Journal keeps a constantly updated log of any file deletions, additions, or modifications to all folders on the NTFS volume.
The Indexing Service can consult with the Change Journal to help determine when new files have been added or when existing files have been modified; it can then proceed to update the index.
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