does INDEXING slows down my system?

[singularity2006]

I cannot say anything from a technical standpoint, though I have noticed no difference in my system performance or resource consumption with indexing enabled or disabled. However, I do use the search function once in a while and having the indexing service enabled radically speeds up the search process. Leave it enabled. It's very handy.

[dvornik]

You can hear the damn thing working when it's enabled. It slows things down quite a bit generally. I don't know what benefits it would have. Unless you're really into searching and all of that.

[singularity2006]

ooh really? hmmm... my system idles nicely. But then again, I have a baracuda iv drive too. But yeah, I find it really handy because with the volume of files I do have, the searches come out almost instantly. Otherwise, it really chugs.... for a really long time.

[elvis]

Microsoft Indexing Service is designed only to run when a system is idle, or run partial indexes when you do a search on a new disk that hasn't previously been indexed.

If you do a hell of a lot of file searching, it can really make things so much better for you. If on the other hand you search for files once a month or les, leave it disabled.

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