Hard drive running

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I just got a new PC with Windows Vista home premium. The hard drive seems to
be running allot. Is this normal for Vista?
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Normal, yes, appropriate or useful, no!

This is likely indexing. One of Vista's dumbest and most poorly
implemented "features" that will constantly cause your hard drives to
trash around while not offering much in value.

In theory is should improve how fast search finds things. Since most
people rarely if ever do extensive searching for files on their system
all the effort is wasted. Most people disable indexing or limit it to
one partition.
 
JBrown said:
I just got a new PC with Windows Vista home premium. The hard drive
seems to be running allot. Is this normal for Vista?
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It's just doing the file indexing. Vista and indexing are setup to only
index 3 default folders out of the box. Vista is not indexing the entire
drive, unless you start changing the Index service configuration. You
can look the information up, use Google. Just let it run, it will stop
and it's not doing it all of the time once it does its initial indexing.
 
Ringmaster said:
Normal, yes, appropriate or useful, no!

This is likely indexing. One of Vista's dumbest and most poorly
implemented "features" that will constantly cause your hard drives to
trash around while not offering much in value.

In theory is should improve how fast search finds things. Since most
people rarely if ever do extensive searching for files on their system
all the effort is wasted. Most people disable indexing or limit it to
one partition.
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yeah turn it off, its worthless. search works just fine without it.
 
yeah turn it off, its worthless. search works just fine without it.
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Or better yet, download Agent Ransack (google it) and use that.

I shut off indexing on all drives, but one day when there was vigorous
disk activity (not due to me doing anything) I checked in process
explorer and found the searchindexer.exe was still running wild. I
renamed the executable and that seems to have solved the problem.
 
Ringmaster said:
Normal, yes, appropriate or useful, no!

This is likely indexing. One of Vista's dumbest and most poorly
implemented "features" that will constantly cause your hard drives to
trash around while not offering much in value.

In theory is should improve how fast search finds things. Since most
people rarely if ever do extensive searching for files on their system
all the effort is wasted. Most people disable indexing or limit it to
one partition.
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Yeah, that's actually a good tip.
Ringmaster, you learning Vista ?
'bout time.
You'll like it soon.
 
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