mrp04 Posted January 16, 2008 Share Posted January 16, 2008 Is there a way to make the search indexer high priority so that it can finish faster? It says speed reduced due to user activity, but I am just browsing the web and maybe writing a word document right now. My old index was about 115k files, so this will take a while at the normal slow speed. My index was messed up, it wouldn't find a certain file even if I searched the exact name of the file in the same folder its in! Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Brandon Live Veteran Posted January 16, 2008 Veteran Share Posted January 16, 2008 I run all my systems like this, wish it were still a user accessible option (it is on XP but not on Vista). HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE\SOFTWARE\Microsoft\Windows Search\Gathering Manager DisableBackoff = 1 Restart the Windows Search service for it to take effect. And don't change anything else in there, or you can really mess things up. articuno1au 1 Share Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
rajputwarrior Posted January 16, 2008 Share Posted January 16, 2008 I run all my systems like this, wish it were still a user accessible option (it is on XP but not on Vista).HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE\SOFTWARE\Microsoft\Windows Search\Gathering Manager DisableBackoff = 1 Restart the Windows Search service for it to take effect. And don't change anything else in there, or you can really mess things up. nice tip brandon... gonna do that on my vista box Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Brandon Live Veteran Posted January 16, 2008 Veteran Share Posted January 16, 2008 Actually I lied when I said all my systems run like that, my laptop generally does not. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
soumyasch Posted November 23, 2009 Share Posted November 23, 2009 Actually I lied when I said all my systems run like that, my laptop generally does not. Doesn't the Fast Forward button on your indexer gadget to the same thing? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Brandon Live Veteran Posted November 23, 2009 Veteran Share Posted November 23, 2009 Yes it does. This post predated my gadget :) This tweak should be less necessary on Windows 7. It still works, but the Win7 indexer is already much faster, and already prioritizes indexing of folders you're actually looking at among other things. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Evert Posted October 6, 2010 Share Posted October 6, 2010 If you'd want to tweak this setting on Windows 7 anyway, check out http://blog.tiensivu.com/aaron/archives/1761-Windows-Search-4-still-throttles-itself-too-much-little-known-XP-Vista-Windows-7-performance-tweak-that-works.html for details. :-) Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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