It does not effect the drive itself. And, the indexing service is, by
default not active anyways. But, if you have installed the windows
desktop
search it does utilize the indexing allowed property value but you
would need
to explicitly configure it to index a network drive (regardless of
what the value
of the property is)
The hesitation is due to the PC having to check on the drive (by
establishing
a NetBIOS session) over the network. This may or may not be
normal (depending upon what the answers to the following questions
are).
But since you neglected to say what the network drives are.
1) Are they NAS (network attached storage), or shared from an other
PC(s) or server(s)?
2) If other PC or server -
a) which?
b) what OS version(s)
c) what optimizations have been done on it/them
d) what network/file security policies are in effect?
e) Is file caching over network allowed?
On Jan 22, 9:59 am, infiniteMPG <[email protected]> wrote:
> We're trying to improve some performance issues with XP Pro. One of
> the things we've noticed is with Windows Explorer when we browse thru
> the drives it kind of stalls on some drive letters, waits a few
> seconds and then continues the display. When we look at properties
> for a network drive we can disable indexing services for that drive
> and we have heard that turning this OFF could help. We have it
> disables on the services level of the local PC, but we are thinking
> this just affects the local drives.
>
> Our question is if we turn off indexing services for a network drive,
> does it only affect indexing services for that drive on that local
> machine or does it affect the network drive itself????
>
> Thanks for your help and any other suggestions would be greatly
> appreciated. We're using this as a refernce :
>
> http://kadaitcha.cx/performance.html
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