Drive thrashing windows vista

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There are a couple of ways to reduce the disk overhead that the indexing feature imposes. The obvious and more drastic method is just to turn drive indexing off. In Windows XP, this was almost an automatic step when tweaking the operating system, since the indexing feature was next to useless anyway.

With Windows Vista's enhanced search features, you may want to think twice about this if you have, or expect to have a large amount of data in terms of number of files stored on your computer.

Indexing does make searching for files and folders quite a bit faster, but searches do still work with the same results without indexing. They may just take longer. To turn the indexing feature off in Windows Vista, open the 'start' menu and type 'services' in the search bar. In the services window, scroll down until you reach the 'windows search' service.

Right click it and hit 'properties'. In the 'startup type' dropdown box, change the value to 'disabled', then click the 'stop' button below to stop the service immediately. Hit 'ok. If you don't want to disable indexing entirely, consider altering its function to make it index less files, keeping only what you are likely to search for.

Windows Vista allows you to get very specific about what types of files will be indexed.