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Message: <blockquote data-quote="gazaly" data-source="post: 191383" data-attributes="member: 10197"><p><span style="color: DarkRed"><span style="font-size: 15px"></span></span></p><p><span style="color: DarkRed"><span style="font-size: 15px"></span></span></p><p><span style="color: DarkRed"><span style="font-size: 15px">If your PC hard drive is NTFS formatted then the Indexing Service will have been automatically switched on when Windows was installed.</span></span></p><p><span style="color: DarkRed"><span style="font-size: 15px"></span></span></p><p><span style="color: DarkRed"><span style="font-size: 15px">The Indexing Service works in the background and produces an index of the content of your documents.  This makes it much faster when you do a search for documents - i.e “search for documents containing the word xxxx”.</span></span></p><p><span style="color: DarkRed"><span style="font-size: 15px"></span></span></p><p><span style="color: DarkRed"><span style="font-size: 15px">But for that occasional speed boost you pay heavily in terms of general computer speed and disk capacity. Every time you save a document the index is updated, hence slowing down the action.</span></span></p><p><span style="color: DarkRed"><span style="font-size: 15px"></span></span></p><p><span style="color: DarkRed"><span style="font-size: 15px">And the index for a document occupies an additional 30% of the documents original space.</span></span></p><p><span style="color: DarkRed"><span style="font-size: 15px"></span></span></p><p><span style="color: DarkRed"><span style="font-size: 15px">If the File system is FAT32 then you don’t have the option of using Indexing.  So you don’t need to proceed with this tip.</span></span></p><p><span style="color: DarkRed"><span style="font-size: 15px"></span></span></p><p><span style="color: DarkRed"><span style="font-size: 15px">But if the File system is NTFS then you should:</span></span></p><p><span style="color: DarkRed"><span style="font-size: 15px"></span></span></p><p><span style="color: DarkRed"><span style="font-size: 15px">Left click:</span></span></p><p><span style="color: DarkRed"><span style="font-size: 15px"></span></span></p><p><span style="color: DarkRed"><span style="font-size: 15px">      Start,</span></span></p><p><span style="color: DarkRed"><span style="font-size: 15px">      (Settings),</span></span></p><p><span style="color: DarkRed"><span style="font-size: 15px">      Control Panel,</span></span></p><p><span style="color: DarkRed"><span style="font-size: 15px">      Add or Remove Programs,</span></span></p><p><span style="color: DarkRed"><span style="font-size: 15px">      Add/Remove Windows Components,</span></span></p><p><span style="color: DarkRed"><span style="font-size: 15px"></span></span></p><p><span style="color: DarkRed"><span style="font-size: 15px">Find Indexing services and left click to deselect it.</span></span></p><p><span style="color: DarkRed"><span style="font-size: 15px">When Windows has finished implementing this change (it takes a while) you should notice a real improvement in speed.</span></span></p><p><span style="color: DarkRed"><span style="font-size: 15px"></span></span></p></blockquote><p></p>

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