Re: What is the proper way to stop the indexing servce ?

well, i would set them
both to "disable", at least
for a couple of days.

having a third party
indexing service may
be adding some grief
to your system.

i'm not really sure when
indexing kicks in automatically
or manually. however,
in some cases windows
performance greatly
improves with the
indexing disabled.

here is some more info
on the subject:

http://search.microsoft.com/results.aspx?mkt=en-US&form=MSHOME&setlang=en-US&q=indexing+service


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"dave xnet" wrote:

On Fri, 7 Mar 2008 14:41:07 -0600, db ´¯`·.. ><)))º>` .. .
<databaseben.public.newsgroup.microsoft.com> wrote:

the proper way is
to turn it off via
admin tools, services.

in regards to the
indexes, i wouldn't
delete them but if
you did, they would
be rebuilt when the
indexing service was
turned back on.

keep in mind, that
windows indexing
may not be the only
thing installed on your
pc that is indexing as
well.

however, turning off
the windows version
is a good start to figuring
out what has gained your
interest.

Thanks for the info.
I've got a dual boot, two installs of XP PRO SP2,
on one system the service was set to "auto",
while on the other one it was "manual"

On the system where it was manual, I'm not aware of it running
recently, although I can't swear on it. I did a check on
http://www.ss64.com/ntsyntax/services.html which mentioned
the default status was manual. If that's the case, what actions cause
it to kick off ?

I don't use the Windows search tool, instead I use Agent Ransack,
perhaps that's a factor.

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