From: Gregg N 

Geo wrote:

> So you do a lot of searching for documents? I find that when I'm looking for
> a file, many times its a dll or exe I'm searching for and those times the
> find feature works just fine. When I am searching for a file by some string
> in it's contents it's usually stored in a directory I know so I can limit
> the find to that directory.

Define "a lot". Maybe a couple of times a week I need to find a
file, either by name or by content. Even searching for a source code file
in my source directory tree containing dozen or so projects is much quicker
using the indexing service than by brute force.

> Aren't files usually being created or modified when you are at the console
> and doesn't that pretty much mean the index service is active when you need
> the cpu and inactive when you don't need the cpu?

No. The indexing service does not index temp files, or the browser cache,
so there is no indexing activity when browsing the web, or reading news
groups. There is indexing activity when writing source code, but I think it
only occurs when the computer is idle. I never notice it.

Gregg

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