Wednesday, September 23, 2009
Turn off Windows Desktop Search and Indexing
To turn off Windows Desktop Search
In RegEdit
HKEY_CURRENT_USER\Software\Microsoft\Windows Desktop Search\DS
set "ShowStartSearchBand" to 0, and you'll get the default search behavior back.
To turn off Windows Indexing
Turn off indexing on particular hard disk drive
Disable the Indexing Service in Windows XP
In RegEdit
HKEY_CURRENT_USER\Software\Microsoft\Windows Desktop Search\DS
set "ShowStartSearchBand" to 0, and you'll get the default search behavior back.
To turn off Windows Indexing
Turn off indexing on particular hard disk drive
- Open up “My Computer”. Or open “Windows Explorer” and then expand Computer tree.
- Right click on the hard drive to disable indexing (i.e (C:) drive letter).
- Select Properties on the contextual menu.
- Click on General tab if it’s not already selected.
- Untick (unselect) the check box for Allow Indexing Service to index this disk for fast file searching option.
- Click OK, and wait for the index removal process to complete, which may take a few minutes.
- Repeat the steps for other hard drives if applicable.
Disable the Indexing Service in Windows XP
- Open “Control Panel”, select “Administrator Tools”, and open Services applet. Alternatively, type services.msc in the Rn text box from Start menu, and then hit Enter.
- Scroll down and locate Indexing Service service, and then double click on it.
- Click on Stop button to immediately stop the indexing service if the service status shows “Running.
- Under the “Startup Type”, select Disabled to permanently disable the indexing service so that it won’t run again.
- Click OK.
# posted by Les Bain @ 1:46 PM
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