Tag: indexing_services

Disable Indexing Services

February 04, 2007 by Jason

Indexing Services is a small little program that uses large amounts of RAM and can often make a endlessly loud and noisy. This system process indexes and updates lists of all the files that are on your . It does this so that when you do a search for something on your , it will search faster by scanning the index lists. If you dont search your often, or even if you do search often, this system service is completely unnecessary. To disable do the following:

Go to Start
Click Settings
Click
Double-click Add/Remove Programs
Click the Add/Remove Window Components
Uncheck the Indexing services
Click Next