I understand Rick's personal reason for not wanting to use the search index, but it only takes up a very small amount of system processes and a very small amount of ram. In fact, when your computer is busy doing other things it shuts off completely. The index only runs when there is something to be indexed like when you create a new file. If you do not create thousands of files a day then you won't feel it at all, nothing. the indexer takes about 32 KB of ram. This is only about 3% of a floppy disk. Believe me, the resources used up are negligible. These calculations are made based on an index of 160,000 items, which is probably much bigger than most. I don't feel a hit on my processor at all, nor have I ever had a crash due to the indexing. I'm sure you've never heard of people using netbooks having these problems either. Netbooks are much weaker but the indexer still runs without a problem.
Andre From: Rick Justice Sent: Monday, October 04, 2010 4:14 PM To: [email protected] Subject: Re: [Blind-Computing] concerning indexing in the system tray Hi Alan, It will be one less process running in the background. There are many processes running in the background of Windows that in many cases are not used, and combined will slow down overall performance. HTH, Rick Justice ----- Original Message ----- From: "Alan Robbins" <[email protected]> To: <[email protected]> Sent: Monday, October 04, 2010 6:30 PM Subject: Re: [Blind-Computing] concerning indexing in the system tray > What type performance enhancement does this gain you? > > Al > > -----Original Message----- > From: [email protected] > [mailto:[email protected]]on Behalf Of > Rick Justice > Sent: Monday, October 04, 2010 5:29 PM > To: [email protected] > Subject: Re: [Blind-Computing] concerning indexing in the > system tray > > > Hi Matt, > Control panel, then Administrative tools, then choose > indexing service and > disable. > HTH, > Rick Justice > ----- Original Message ----- > From: "Matt" <[email protected]> > To: <[email protected]> > Sent: Monday, October 04, 2010 2:05 PM > Subject: Re: [Blind-Computing] concerning indexing in the > system tray > > >> Ok, where do I disable it, control panel and settings? >> ----- Original Message ----- >> From: Rick Justice >> To: [email protected] >> Sent: Monday, October 04, 2010 9:59 AM >> Subject: Re: [Blind-Computing] concerning indexing in the > system tray >> >> >> Hi Matt, >> Yes, you are correct. >> In my opinion, for the little difference in time > accessing a file, the >> indexing service is not worth the resources it uses. >> I have it disabled on all of my systems. >> HTH, >> Rick Justice >> ----- Original Message ----- >> From: "Matt" <[email protected]> >> To: <[email protected]> >> Sent: Monday, October 04, 2010 9:24 AM >> Subject: [Blind-Computing] concerning indexing in the > system tray >> >> >> > Hi, I use windows xp home, I've got it into my head > that if I go into >> the >> > system tray and go into indexing and go to file and hit > x for exit, >> that >> > it speeds up processes as I check email and so on. >> > Is this true, if not, is there some way to make it exit > itself after it >> > has finished? >> > Thanks, >> > >> > Matt >> > For answers to frequently asked questions about this > list visit: >> > http://www.jaws-users.com/help/ >> >> >> For answers to frequently asked questions about this list > visit: >> http://www.jaws-users.com/help/ >> For answers to frequently asked questions about this list > visit: >> http://www.jaws-users.com/help/ > > > For answers to frequently asked questions about this list > visit: > http://www.jaws-users.com/help/ > > > For answers to frequently asked questions about this list visit: > http://www.jaws-users.com/help/ For answers to frequently asked questions about this list visit: http://www.jaws-users.com/help/ For answers to frequently asked questions about this list visit: http://www.jaws-users.com/help/
