From: John Beckett 

"Gary Britt"  wrote in message
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> It was Win2K on a 256 meg machine and 1.7 ghz P4 processor.  It could have
> been a paging effect possibly, I guess.

Another slight possibility is that you had a FAT partition. On NTFS,
applications can be notified when changes to files happen, but on FAT the
Indexing Service would have to periodically scan to detect changed files
that may need re-indexing. I don't think I've ever used the Indexing
Service on FAT, so I don't know if you would notice.

Certainly the machines I'm using now (where the Indexing Service is not
noticable) have NTFS and lots of RAM.

John

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