From: "Gary Britt" 

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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