So - for the sake of once a week, the other 6 days, 23 hours and maybe 50
minutes, you are content to have a SIGNIFICANTLY slower machine with
indexing ON?

Crazy!

Me, I prefer my machine to work better but you enjoy the slowness. Each to
his own.


"Charles W Davis" wrote in message
...
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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