From: "Gary Britt" 

John thanks for the info.  Its possible I didn't let it run long enough to
get past its initial indexing and/or a domain policy thing.

Gary

"John Beckett"  wrote
in message news:ml1ss1913mocprsdqqt9bdurnujd25tlhr{at}4ax.com...
> "Gary Britt"  wrote in message
> news::
> > 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
>
> There are some registry entries that can influence how the Indexing
> Service operates. I haven't studied the details, but ISTR one of them
> offered to speed up indexing (that is, slow down the current user in order
> to speed up indexing). Maybe a domain admin had set something that
> influenced what you saw? Or, maybe it would have been ok if you had left
> it running for a day?
>
> Certainly with the defaults, what Rich said is correct. You can see the
> status of the Indexing Service (run ciadv.msc). It says (after you expand
> the Status column) "Indexing Paused (User Active)". And it really is
> paused so long as you are active.
>
> I'm also a fast typist and I can't tolerate background rubbish. I have
> never noticed the Indexing Service running (although I think when I first
> enabled it, I felt its activity during the first day).
>
> There is a review of indexing apps at:
> http://arstechnica.com/reviews/apps/desktop-search.ars
>
> They preferred the MSN Desktop Search.
>
> John
>

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