Busy Vista on single user system

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I am a new Vista Home Premium user on a new pc (not this one) that is
exclusively offline, single-user, pretty much static software environment. It
seems like Vista is doing a lot of gyrations that I suspect are
Internet/Intranet/Server related and extraneous to my usage. This includes a
lot of HD activity.
I'm wondering if there are any options to trim Vista back in this regard,
short of tampering with the Registry.
 
The hard drive will be busy for the first few days doing the indexing.
It makes the fast search part of Vista, well, fast. :) It should slow
down after it has indexed what it needs to. But, it is completely normal.
 
Hi,

As it's new, it's probably the indexing service cataloging your system. This
should die down within a few days. Also, a new installation has a learning
curve as the system prefetch service gets used to the manner in which a
system is used.

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thanks for your feedback
My system is "new" in that it came with Vista; it's actually about 3 months
old now. My observations in Task Manager when no apps are running show
processes like Local Security Authority churning away. I wonder at what. I
can't say I'm impacted but it does seem rather inelegant for a system to be
so active when not connected to any kind of network and no productive work
being attempted.
 
:
As it's new, it's probably the indexing service cataloging your system. This
should die down within a few days. Also, a new installation has a learning
curve as the system prefetch service gets used to the manner in which a
system is used.
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My PC is the same after 10 days.... and I suspect the Index Service. I had
89,500 files indexed!!!! I should have looked to see how big that master
index file was before I made changes.

If you go into Index Options you'll find a file association list. I could
not believe what was being indexed. I removed some 700 file extensions. Now
the Index System doesn't seem to be smart enough to delete them from its
master file. It just starts the indexing process all over again. I've tried
to disable the service with no success to date. I'd rather go back to this
free file indexing service called FileHand that I used with ME and XP. Just
more of MS’s bloatware.
 
ulTRAX said:
My PC is the same after 10 days.... and I suspect the Index Service. I had
89,500 files indexed!!!! I should have looked to see how big that master
index file was before I made changes.

If you go into Index Options you'll find a file association list. I could
not believe what was being indexed. I removed some 700 file extensions.
Now
the Index System doesn't seem to be smart enough to delete them from its
master file. It just starts the indexing process all over again. I've
tried
to disable the service with no success to date. I'd rather go back to this
free file indexing service called FileHand that I used with ME and XP.
Just
more of MS’s bloatware.
Click to expand...

Simply choose to rebuild the index in the Indexing Options, this will remove
the current index and only index the file types of your choosing (note: most
systems don't have many, if any, of several of the file types that the
indexer is capable of indexing, so the 89 thousand files you're seeing are
most likely files that you have that have nothing to do with the file types
you deleted from the file types list)

If you want to turn it off, that's easy. I don't feel like typing it all
out, so here's a link . . .

http://www.mydigitallife.info/2007/...ws-vista-search-indexer-and-indexing-service/

Mic
 
Well I certainly didn't have 89,500 files I was interested in. Since I back
up everything in Documents... including email backups, I'd say they number
about 4-8000 files depending on how email files are counted. So I'd have to
say that the vast majority of the files that were being indexed with the
default settings were of no use to me whatsoever. As for turning it off..
it's already done. Thanks. I'm not noticing much of a benefit to the Index
Service so far. What I'm more interested in is searching content of files and
I haven't gotten that to work yet.
 
ulTRAX said:
Well I certainly didn't have 89,500 files I was interested in. Since I
back
up everything in Documents... including email backups, I'd say they number
about 4-8000 files depending on how email files are counted. So I'd have
to
say that the vast majority of the files that were being indexed with the
default settings were of no use to me whatsoever. As for turning it off..
it's already done. Thanks. I'm not noticing much of a benefit to the Index
Service so far. What I'm more interested in is searching content of files
and
I haven't gotten that to work yet.
Click to expand...

I just checked my user folder . . . 59,000+ files (not including
hidden/system files) and the index is stating it has indexed 60,000+ files,
so I'm pretty close to having an index that matches the number of files I
have on my system.

I do have it indexing the contents (takes a LONG time to build the index)
and if I type one word, like "guitar" I get every document that has the word
guitar in it listed, plus pictures with the tag "guitar" listed, and emails
and newsgroup messages that have guitar in them listed.

I'm stumped as to the problems you're having and I wish I could help more,
but I can't seem to duplicate the problems you're having, so unfortunately I
can't come up with a solution.

Mic
 
Michael Palumbo said:
I do have it indexing the contents (takes a LONG time to build the index)
and if I type one word, like "guitar" I get every document that has the word
guitar in it listed, plus pictures with the tag "guitar" listed, and emails
and newsgroup messages that have guitar in them listed.

I'm stumped as to the problems you're having and I wish I could help more,
but I can't seem to duplicate the problems you're having, so unfortunately I
can't come up with a solution.
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So the best this Indexing System can do I bring up a file that contains a
keyword? It doesn't show the context the keyword is in? If that's the case
it's no better than XPs seach fuction. What I liked about Filehand... and
sadly it's ANOTHER program that doesn't run on Vista even in compatibility
mode, is it showed context. Here's their page for anyone who's interested:
http://www.filehand.com/
 
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