Is it best to not allow indexing of your disk

[razz]

A friend of mine tells me that it will enhance PC performance by not allowing the Indexing Service to index your disk and the folders and subfolders of that disk.

 

In your opinion, is this correct?

 

For those who don't know how to check/activate/deactivate your indexing setup (at least with XP)....

Click My Computer, right-click disk, click on Properties and see if box at bottom is checked - if it is, your disk is being indexed.

[Talldog9]

There is some performance gain, don't know how much. If you disable it be sure to also disable the service so you can gain some RAM and CPU. Indexing must access every file so you will reduce disk access too.

[rridgely]

Not worth it unless you have an older pc.

Performance gain is low and searching for files will take much longer.

[hazelnut]

I have always turned indexing off, however I don't do many searches for documents etc.

 

I see you've asked this before Razz!!

http://forum.piriform.com/index.php?showtopic=22664&st=0&p=139679&hl=indexing&fromsearch=1entry139679

 

An interesting thread about a problem to do with indexing.

 

http://forum.piriform.com/index.php?showtopic=17417&st=0&p=112755&hl=indexing&fromsearch=1entry112755

[Aethec]

The question is "Do you search for files very often ?" If you do, indexing is a good idea. Else, it isn't. I do one search a month, so I turned it off.

But if you're on an XP computer, indexing is pretty much useless. Vista/7's one is much better.

[Talldog9]

http://www.blackviper.com/WinXP/Services/Indexing_Service.htm

 

XP indexing seems to be bad too.

 

 

 

XP at least try running ciadv.msc

[Andavari]

I have always turned indexing off, however I don't do many searches for documents etc.

The same for me. Matters of course how people use their computers, however for me it's a very useless feature.

[razz]

I see you've asked this before Razz!!

I'm getting old Hazel I forgot I had asked this question before.

 

Thanks all, I have turned indexing off.