Recently programs running under Vista (SP2) like Outlook 2007 and IE 8 would "stop responding" for significant periods - then start again. The delays made the system so frustrating I wanted to throw the machine across the room (Dell XPS M1530 with 4GB Ram). After dealing with this for a several weeks, I finally tried stopping the search indexing service. Doing this stopped this problem.
The indexing should be in the background and at a low priority to prevent this problem but apparently it doesn't. I don't have a clue how to provide this feedback to MS, should they care enough to fix it.
I don't have this issue on my desktop running Windows 7 or on my XP machine - only on the Vista machine. I plan on moving this machine to W7 soon so the issue will be short lived.
I just wanted to post my experience here for what it is worth.
The indexing should be in the background and at a low priority to prevent this problem but apparently it doesn't. I don't have a clue how to provide this feedback to MS, should they care enough to fix it.
I don't have this issue on my desktop running Windows 7 or on my XP machine - only on the Vista machine. I plan on moving this machine to W7 soon so the issue will be short lived.
I just wanted to post my experience here for what it is worth.
