{"id":1459,"date":"2011-04-20T13:47:54","date_gmt":"2011-04-20T17:47:54","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/thundercloud.net\/infoave\/new\/?p=1459"},"modified":"2011-04-20T13:47:54","modified_gmt":"2011-04-20T17:47:54","slug":"speed-up-your-computer-turn-off-search-indexing-in-windows-vista-and-windows-7","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.thundercloud.net\/infoave\/new\/speed-up-your-computer-turn-off-search-indexing-in-windows-vista-and-windows-7\/","title":{"rendered":"Speed up your computer – Turn off “Search Indexing” in Windows Vista and Windows 7"},"content":{"rendered":"


\n<\/strong> Windows Vista’s\u00a0\/ Windows 7’s “Search Indexing” is continuously checking all files on \t\t\tyour computer and indexing them so that their information available \t\t\tfor quick searching. This can speed up the Windows search feature, \t\t\tbut it also slows system performance substantially. Since most of us \t\t\tdon’t use Windows Search very often, you can speed up Vista and Windows 7 by \t\t\tturning this feature off. If you turn it off, you can still use \t\t\tWindows Search – but it will be slower. If you had a \t\t\tchoice between a slower Windows Search or a slower computer, which \t\t\twould you choose? If you chose the latter then you’ll like this \t\t\ttip..<\/span><\/p>\n

Here’s how to turn off Search Indexing in Windows Vista or Windows 7:<\/p>\n

1. Click the Start button
\n2. Select Computer
\n3. Right-click on the C: Drive icon
\n4. Select Properties
\n5. Select the General Tab
\n6. In Vista uncheck “Index this drive for faster searching” in Windows 7 uncheck “Allow files on this drive to have contents indexed in addition to file properties.”
\n7. On the next dialog box, select Apply Changes to Drive C:, \t\t\tsubfolders and files
\n8. Click OK<\/span><\/p>\n

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\nWindows 7 (above)
\n<\/a><\/span><\/p>\n

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\"Cloudeight
\nWindows Vista (above)
\n<\/span><\/span><\/span><\/p>\n

\"Cloudeight<\/span><\/span><\/p>\n

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Windows Vista’s\u00a0\/ Windows 7’s “Search Indexing” is continuously checking all files on your computer and indexing them so that their information available for quick searching. This can speed up the Windows search feature, but it also slows system performance substantially. Since most of us don’t use Windows Search very often, you can speed up Vista and Windows 7\u2026 Read More »<\/a><\/span><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[10],"tags":[965,966,964],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.thundercloud.net\/infoave\/new\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1459"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.thundercloud.net\/infoave\/new\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.thundercloud.net\/infoave\/new\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.thundercloud.net\/infoave\/new\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.thundercloud.net\/infoave\/new\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1459"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/www.thundercloud.net\/infoave\/new\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1459\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1462,"href":"https:\/\/www.thundercloud.net\/infoave\/new\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1459\/revisions\/1462"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.thundercloud.net\/infoave\/new\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1459"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.thundercloud.net\/infoave\/new\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1459"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.thundercloud.net\/infoave\/new\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1459"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}