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    Does turning off Windows Vista Indexing Service really give you a good perfomance boost?

    Discussion in 'Windows OS and Software' started by BNHabs, Jan 11, 2009.

  1. BNHabs

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    Does turning off Windows Vista Indexing Service really give you a good perfomance boost?
     
    BNHabs, Jan 11, 2009
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    For me, no.
    Also, boot up is slower without it as well strangely.
     
    duksandfish, Jan 11, 2009
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  3. Ice Cold

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    yes yes and yes.

    Vista Indexing and Superfetch love to take RAM I went from having 4GB DDR 2 800 RAM, with Indexing and Superfetch on all it does is Disk Thrash never stops indexing or pre-caching stuff it thinks you might need into RAM.

    I had from 4GB only 75MB free RAM.

    Everything is Faster now that I turned off SuperFetch and Indexing.

    Saves a ton of battery power too because it doesnt have to spin the HDD for 7 minutes cacheing everyhing into RAM


    Sure Fire Fox, IE, Media Player iTunes take an extra second to load but its worth it, not to have your disk spinning without you telling it to.
     
    Ice Cold, Jan 11, 2009
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  4. PJ@y-Z

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    Disable "Windows Search" service :p
     
    PJ@y-Z, Jan 11, 2009
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    Nonsense.

    Once Indexing has completed an intital run through your files, it only activates when something new is added.

    Superfetch is also fairly unobtrusive once you give it a chance to do its' thing.

    If you think a bunch of free ram makes things faster, think again. Unused RAM is dead Ram. I wish Superfetch would cache more! Less than half of my 4gb is ever used.

    Everything is enabled on my system except remote access services and unused hardware - 36sec to boot up andapps load instantly.
     
    Capella1, Jan 11, 2009
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  6. Audigy

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    On the cmd: sc config WSearch start=disable

    ;)
     
    Audigy, Jan 11, 2009
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    It will make it a little faster. It depends mainly on how much RAM you have. But on all components. You will see more of a difference on a slowwer computer. Less on a faster computer.

    Personally, it didnt make much of a difference on mine. (specs in sig) in 64bit. In 32bit indexing did make it slower.
     
    ahl395, Jan 11, 2009
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    There is no need to index your entire filesystem. At the very least, reduce the scope of that which is indexed.
     
    AKAJohnDoe, Jan 11, 2009
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  9. davepermen

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    it doesn't really help. measurable differences at most. just leave vista at default. disabling superfetch can change performance perception, but should be enabled in normal case for best performance.
     
    davepermen, Jan 11, 2009
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  10. swarmer

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    This thread's question was not about Superfetch. We have 10 million other threads debating Superfetch, if anyone wants to search.

    As for search, it is a performance hit for a little while it's indexing your files, and then it's not significant anymore. Search right now is using about 6 MB of RAM and 0% of my CPU... not too bad.

    If you dump thousands more files onto your hard drive, there might be a bit of a performance impact while it indexes those.

    If you want it to index files more slowly, you can go to Power Management > Change plan settings > Change advanced power settings > Search and Indexing and set the power saving mode to Balanced. That should scale back the indexer a bit. Of course, when you're not adding new files to your system, it shouldn't matter.

    btw, search is a very useful feature.
     
    swarmer, Jan 11, 2009
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  11. sgogeta4

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    Just index it while you're idle. I don't disable mine since there is virtually no performance boost without indexing.
     
    sgogeta4, Jan 11, 2009
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