I installed Office 2007 last night. It prompted me to apply the desktop search, so I though OK - must be a cool new feature like Google's. It took my to the web page and I stupidly downloaded it. Well, this AM when I tried to use my PC everything was soooo slow (even just opening IE). I checked my Task Manager and saw PF Useage was quite high. Looking at the processes and adding the Page Fault column, I discovered a couple of the Search Index service exe's running with high values. I closed out the Search tool in my sys tray, but they remained running. I tried killing them (End Process) through Task Manager, but they came back. I decided to uninstall it, so I went to Add/Remove Programs and located the Windows Desktop Search 3.01. After opening up Office and getting through a few clunky spots, it's now running like a champ. My recommendation: Don't install it. And thanks to whoever posted the nugget on getting rid of the "Click here to enable..." message. That's a really dumb thing for them put in there.

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