Speeding Up Vista’s Indexing Feature
Published by: Codrut Nistor, in Tips & Tricks
November27th2007
If you want to improve the speed of your computer, minimizing the locations indexed by Vista for fast retrieval is a good idea, and since you don't need to be a computer scientist to do this, here's how it can be done...
- Press the Start Orb, type "indexing" in the search bar, and then click the highlighted item to bring up the Indexing Options window.
- In the Indexing Options window, click on Modify.
- Notice the selected locations, those that are currently being indexed. Uncheck those that you don't need. The Start Menu should be enough for most people.
- Press OK when done. There is no need to restart your computer or anything else, the changes are applied on-the-fly.
In my case, the procedure above reduced the amount of indexed items from 780 to about 120, but think about systems used by more than one user, with thousands of items listed, and the performance gain that could be achieved this way!
- Press the Start Orb, type "indexing" in the search bar, and then click the highlighted item to bring up the Indexing Options window.
- In the Indexing Options window, click on Modify.
- Notice the selected locations, those that are currently being indexed. Uncheck those that you don't need. The Start Menu should be enough for most people.
- Press OK when done. There is no need to restart your computer or anything else, the changes are applied on-the-fly.
In my case, the procedure above reduced the amount of indexed items from 780 to about 120, but think about systems used by more than one user, with thousands of items listed, and the performance gain that could be achieved this way!
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