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Turn off indexing and speed up Windows XPIf you don't use Windows XP's built-in search often (like every day), disabling indexing can significantly speed up your PC. By default Windows XP indexes files on your hard drive and stores them in memory to speed up its' built-in search. But if you rarely use Windows search, turn off indexing to free up memory and CPU horsepower for the files and applications you actually do use. A few simple how-to steps after the jump. To turn off indexing:
To disable the indexing service:
Windows search will still work if you perform these steps, but it will work more slowly than if indexing was enabled. |
1. Disable Indexing Services
Indexing Services is a small little program that uses large amounts of RAM and can often make a computer endlessly loud and noisy. This system process indexes and updates lists of all the files that are on your computer. It does this so that when you do a search for something on your computer, it will search faster by scanning the index lists. If you don't search your computer often, or even if you do search often, this system service is completely unnecessary. To disable do the following:
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