Archive for July, 2009
Search “everything”
by David Qiao on Jul.17, 2009, under Computer
Not sure how many of you are annoyed by the slowness of Vista. One of the main reasons for the slowness is its constantly background indexing. You see a “green ribbon of death” on explorer’s address bar? That’s the result of the indexing. On one of my HP desktop, when it is indexing, it is so slow that I have to quit using it till several hours later. The solution is to simply turn off the indexing completely by right clicking on the drive in the explorer, select “Properties” then uncheck the “Index this drive for faster searching”. Make sure in the next message box, you select “apply changes to subfolders and files”. It will take a while for this operation to complete but after that, your Vista will be super fast. Open explorer window is instant. Some people even suggest to turn off the “Window Search” service. But I still need it to search my outlook emails so I didn’t do that. So far I didn’t notice any slowness because of this.
But without the indexing, what if I want to locate a file? Get this “everything” from http://www.voidtools.com/. Merely 340k download size, totally amazing. It took just 3 minutes to index my whole disk and after that the search for a file name is instant 
