I just got a new PC with Windows Vista home premium. The hard drive seems to
be running allot. Is this normal for Vista?

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Thank you,(jbrown15@xxxxxx)
Jim Brown

On Sat, 27 Sep 2008 10:43:49 -0400, "JBrown" <jbrown15@xxxxxx>
wrote:

>I just got a new PC with Windows Vista home premium. The hard drive seems to
>be running allot. Is this normal for Vista?

Yes. It will do this for awhile. It is Indexing the files on your
computer to find them faster. Just let it run it will stop.

JBrown wrote:

> I just got a new PC with Windows Vista home premium. The hard drive
> seems to be running allot. Is this normal for Vista?
>

It's just doing the file indexing. Vista and indexing are setup to only
index 3 default folders out of the box. Vista is not indexing the entire
drive, unless you start changing the Index service configuration. You
can look the information up, use Google. Just let it run, it will stop
and it's not doing it all of the time once it does its initial indexing.

On Sun, 28 Sep 2008 06:56:46 +0800, fatsteve <internet@xxxxxx> wrote:

>> In theory is should improve how fast search finds things. Since most
>> people rarely if ever do extensive searching for files on their system
>> all the effort is wasted. Most people disable indexing or limit it to
>> one partition.

>
>
>yeah turn it off, its worthless. search works just fine without it.

Or better yet, download Agent Ransack (google it) and use that.

I shut off indexing on all drives, but one day when there was vigorous
disk activity (not due to me doing anything) I checked in process
explorer and found the searchindexer.exe was still running wild. I
renamed the executable and that seems to have solved the problem.