From: "Gary Britt" 

That's not how it worked on my machine at that time.  I don't know why, but
something caused it not to behave the way you've described.  Maybe
something I run or something about domain policies was keeping the service
from seeing the keyboard activity.  Its also possible that what I was
noticing the most were delays to keyboard responsiveness when I would start
typing again after pausing briefly to read and think about the language I
was drafting.  Since I've always kept it turned off since that experience,
I don't know for sure that the behavior would repeat itself.

Gary

"Rich"  wrote in message news:43cdeced$1{at}w3.nls.net...
   Older hardware doesn't matter.  If there is any user activity it stops.
It won't restart until there is a period of inactivity and will stop as
soon as there is any.

Rich

  "Gary Britt"  wrote in message
news:43cde00b{at}w3.nls.net...
  Well this was on a bit older hardware (but still should have been plenty
  fast enough to avoid this) and it was in a Domain situation that maybe
could
  have had some effect on this.  I know for sure when I stopped the indexing
  service and disabled it, the problem immediately went away and never
  returned.  It was definitely related to hard disk activity, because I
could
  see the hard disk indicator flickering busily as the problem was happening
  while I was typing in word.  When I stopped the indexing service, the hard
  disk activity went away and so did the interference with my keyboard
  responsiveness.

  I'm a fast touch typist with lots of macros via hotkeys inside and outside
  of word.  I have my keyboard repeat rate and mouse speeds set at speeds
90%
  or more of people find unusable.  I notice even a tenth of a second or so
  slowdown in keyboard responsiveness, and I was getting more interference
  than that.  Quite a bit more at times.

  Gary

  "Rich"  wrote in message news:43cdbd20{at}w3.nls.net...
     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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