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How To: Disable Search Indexing on Windows Vista

May 1st, 2007 by SysAdmin

This will make searching slower but it will reduce disk thrashing whenever the index is being updated (at every boot).

How To Disable Search Indexing

• Click Start (Windows Orb)
• Click Computer
• Right click the hard drive and then click Properties
• Uncheck Index this drive for faster searching
• Click OK
• Select Apply changes to drive C:\, subfolders and files
• Click OK

If prompted by the UAC (User Account Control) click Continue or follow the steps on how to disable UAC.