My Office 2007 is also running like a champ. Once the indexing is completed,
you will seldom notice it. Let it run to completion, even if you have to
leave the computer on all night. I do search my computer frequently (once a
week) and it is nice to find the results quickly.

"Diamontina Cocktail" wrote in message
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Using either search item is crazy. Both slow your machine and as to
Google's version, I am sincerely doubtful where info about what is on your
drive goes. Don't use programs like that, MS or Google or anyone else.
Turn search indexing off. After all, 99% of the time you aren't searching
for something on your computer so why slow it down for the benefit of 1%
of the time? You are much better off having slower searches and an overall
faster machine.


"Paul" wrote in message ...
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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