How do i shut off the indexing service?? okay to do that??
In addition to the indexing, there's been System File
Protection running since WinME. It checks the drive every
few seconds for file changes or deletions and replaces
system files from its stash if necessary. On WinME and
XP that can be removed by uninstalling "PCHealth".
(With the pleasant side effect that you can then control
system files and delete things like MS games and Windows
Media Player that Windows will otherwise block you from
doing.)
I don't know whether uninstalling PCHealth is possible on
Vista. Unfortunately, that kind of disk access will likely kill your
disks well before their time, since a hard disk has moving parts
that wear out.
Your best chance of finding the information necessary
to make Vista behave, if you want to do that, is probably here:
www.mdgx.com
Windows search is one of the good features bundled