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   I very much doubt it was the indexing service as it goes idle when =
the machine is busy.  Windows Desktop Search is the same.  Neither would =
slow your keyboard response.

Rich

  "Gary Britt"  wrote in message =
news:43cdb72a$1{at}w3.nls.net...
  No it was the indexing service.  Its background indexing was slowing
  keyboard response in Word 2K.  Thanks for the explanations.  I need to =
give
  copernic a try.

  Gary

  "John Beckett" 
wrote in message
  news:pt4rs1t3mj68hmnh8bb8i138ptm90tae3t{at}4ax.com...
  > "Gary Britt"  wrote in message
  > news::
  > > Why even use the indexing service?
  >
  > If your files are all under My Documents, you probably don't need =
the
  > Indexing Service. Indexing is mostly useful for programmers or other
  > hapless people who hoard thousands of files, and have them in =
various
  > folders.
  >
  > > the indexing would slow down response time
  >
  > Perhaps you are thinking of the old 'Find Fast' that was once part =
of
  > Office. I have found that the Indexing Service is very well behaved, =
and
  > has no perceptible impact on my work. However, it does use a bunch =
of disk
  > space (used 0.5GB of the 16GB on my disk here).
  >
  > > is there any potential benefit to using the indexing service?
  >
  > It is only useful for searching files, and then only if your =
application
  > actually uses the Indexing Service. I don't think it indexes emails.
  > However, the various desktop search tools allow searching emails -- =
I
  > think they use their own tricks. I have never investigated this =
because
  > the occasional "Find" in Outlook is all I need for emails.
  >
  > Office has a built-in tool for searching files, and it will use the
  > Indexing Service if it is enabled. However, because the Indexing =
Service
  > lags behind your current work (i.e. it might not index a file for an
  > hour), and because indexing only occurs on C: drive by default, =
Office
  > also does a manual search which makes the result irritatingly slower =
than
  > what the Indexing Service can do.
  >
  > The GUI of the Office and Explorer file search is about right for =
people
  > doing an occasional search, but I imagine that many power users =
would far
  > prefer the simpler style of something like my Search program.
  >
  > John
  >


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Rich
 

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