JethroUK© wrote:
> I read this in the help menu:
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>
> "....Can I turn the Windows search index on or off?
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> No, the index can't be turned off or paused.
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> The Windows search index improves the efficiency of your searches by
> keeping....."
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> How did you manage to turn of indexing??
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>
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> "JethroUK©" <reply@the.board> wrote in message
> news:OJbFxqW%23HHA.4784@TK2MSFTNGP05.phx.gbl...
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>> "David" <david@invalid.com> wrote in message
>> news:gLqdndkLV6YPQnDbnZ2dnUVZ_sCtnZ2d@comcast.com. ..
>>> Mick Murphy wrote:
>>>> Vista search is great. It is one of the many things that I like
>>>> about Vista.
>>>>
>>>>
>>>>>
>>>
>>> LOL! that's great that it works on your machine. I"ve had to
>>> disable it on mine. Even tried rebuilding the index. no joy. so i
>>> run with indexing service turned off. NOW Vista can find files. It
>>> never worked right, "right out of the box" on a new laptop. updates
>>> the past few months have not fixed it. dont even get me started on
>>> all the features that MS dropped from Vista. and the ones that
>>> remain are of dubious value, at best. this OS is one of the worst
>>> they have produced. DOS 4.0, Windows Me, and now Vista. Good
>>> ones: DOS 6.22, XP.
>>>
>>
>> Are you saying I can turn off indexing and go back to normal search
>> (like XP)? - If so, how do i go about it?
>
heck yes, u can turn off indexing!!!!
just go to services.msc and turn off the service. you'll be a much
happier Vista user, once that worthless "service" is disabled. Now
you'll fnd that explorer can actually find stuff! :)

and there's always Google Desktop search, but I don't like it that much
because i like large icons in Explorer better than the search results
returned by GDS.

Dave