Would this speed up Vista?

[TweakIT]

Windows indexing in Vista at least takes up a pretty significant amount of RAM, would there be a noticable speedup but not a drop in productivity if I disabled the indexing services but installed a program like Launchy?

Launchy

http://www.launchy.net

Thanks.

[Roger H. Veteran]

indexing doesn't take up any RAM per say. XP needed launchy because of the long deep menus. With Vista you just click start and type just like you'd do with launchy.

Launchy kinda works the way Vista works in that it indexes all the applications on your machine so that when you start typing the application name it just pulls it from the index.

[Skulltrail-old]

Disabling the Indexing Service won't relieve your computer faster, it will make it more responsive.

[soldier1st]

Disabling the Indexing Service won't relieve your computer faster, it will make it more responsive.

i dont see how it would make it more responsive as it runs as low i/o so it wont bother you and if it did then just leave it alone.

[jwjw1]

Windows Vista works in the background to automatically index all the files in the Start Menu, user profile folders and files setup for offline access by default. If you have many files in these locations and the files change often, the indexing service may slow down your system's performance. Unlike Windows XP, Vista now allows you to easily tweak the indexing service following the steps below. It is recommended that you disable indexing for the other locations other than the Start Menu for maximum performance. Bear in mind that while this tweak speeds up your overall system performance, it will also slow you down when searching for files in those locations.

1. Click on the Start Button and enter Indexing Options. Hit Enter and the Indexing Options should load.

2. Click on the Modify button, followed by Show all locations.

3. Scroll through the tree-view and uncheck all options except the Start Menu. Hit OK.

Note: For advanced users, you can also change other indexing options, like the file types to index, by clicking on the Advanced button.

http://www.vistaultimate.com/tweak-windows...ta-indexing.htm

[bob_c_b]

Windows indexing in Vista at least takes up a pretty significant amount of RAM, would there be a noticable speedup but not a drop in productivity if I disabled the indexing services but installed a program like Launchy?

Launchy

http://www.launchy.net

Thanks.

Just give it enough time to build a good index, it gets to a point where you don't notice it after a few weeks of install (unless you add dozens of small files to your PC every day).

[Skulltrail-old]

i dont see how it would make it more responsive as it runs as low i/o so it wont bother you and if it did then just leave it alone.

Your computer becomes more responsive because it doesn't have to worry about this service. Regardless your computer WILL be more responsive but in different perspectives.

Indexing only applies to when you search for files and applications so unless you do that a lot, this service will be useless to you. If you do use it, a portion of your CPU load will occasionally be used for the service to ensure your searches are as fast as possible. By disabling it, the CPU load is never used for this service hence the increase in responsiveness on other tasks.

Surely this has happened to me. My computer runs absolutely butter-like since I disabled a couple of useless services like Indexing Services.

[soldier1st]

but if you leave the indexing service alone and not change it then the odd time it will run unless you install alot of apps but even so it runs low i/o but do you have a comparison that shows that it may or may not help in certain scenarios?i would like proof before turning it off.if your system cant run the indexer then you cant run vista properly if you ask me.

[TweakIT]

After reading this and playing with the indexing services it doesn't seem it would be a decent increase. Thanks ;).