Re: Additionaly Re: Uninstalling Windows Search 4.0

Hi Ken,

You might be right in general, but MS pushes solutions that are aimed at the
general low-skilled Joe who will not be able to edit the registry and stuff
like that. These System Restore and Indexing services are cases in point.
They cost system resources (physical disk space and their threads running on
the processor) draining away some precious performance when you're
developing high-speed applications.

And for what? If you have Indexing on, for example, you search maybe a
couple of seconds faster for each search you do, but how often do you
search? You're losing performance on your computer for EVERY SECOND this
silly service runs just so you can gain a second or two when you search once
or twice a day?

A related point are these "Office Startup" or "Adobe Speedlaunch" programs
that get added to the Registry (Windows\CurrentVersion\Run) and
Programs>Startup folder. They again drain some valuable system resources and
the upside is pathetic - you can gain maybe 0.5 seconds when you load Adobe
or Word. Big deal. If Word loads in 3.5s without the speed-launch and 3.0s
with it, who cares? The fact that it runs in the background, is a continual
drain on your processor.

Also, I feel System Restore is less benign then it pretends: If you restore
to a point too far back you may lose crucial system settings, such as
performance improvements, hardware drivers, etc. Our computers go into
machines which will almost never have access to the internet once they're
installed. MS touts System Restore as their "get-me-out-of-this-mess"
solution, but they really should get the Uninstall working properly - you
install something that disagrees with your system, you uninstall and away
you go with minimum fuss. Its an excuse for not understanding your PC.

I'm not knocking System Restore, I just don't think its suitable for all
users. And I reckon 99% of Windows users have no idea about their Startup
folder, what silly Services run continuously and the Run settings in the
registry. Just cleaning these up and pairing them down can turn a PC which
feels sluggish and takes a long time to boot up into a "new" machine that
feels fast and easy-to-use.

Anyway, thanks for the response. Its a good response, but no help for me
right now. And I have got it sorted by switching off Indexing and, even
better, search now works like it did before - nicely.

Thanks,
Alain


"Ken Blake" <kblake@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote in message
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"Alain Dekker" <abdekker@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote in message
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Err, sadly I turned off System Restore because I wanted my machine to run
even faster (System Restore includes a service which takes up system
resources). Silly, one might say, but thats where I am.


Your choice of course, and whether it's silly is your decision. But my
view is that you made a bad decision. Any effect on speed is very little,
and removing protection for for so little is a bad choice.


Right now I am turning off the option:
"Allow Indexing Service to index this disk for fast file searching"
which is viewable when you right-click on C:\ and choose "Properties".


Once again your choice. Whether making that choice makes your machine
faster or slower depends on how much searching you do.




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