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Windows Vista -> Insane indexing?
Rivulent
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This is a question to anyone else who is using Vista. I've been using it for a few weeks now with no major problems, although theres one thing. I can be doing the most mundane task (such as looking at penny arcade), one that should not stress my computer in the least. However, as I type this, my hard drive is going insane as if it's loading a huge map or transferring data. Is this the vista indexing working? Can I tone it back or calm it down some? It's going to kill my raptors, I just know it.
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Then find Indexing Service, stop it, and disable it.
Its been months, and i still get it now and then.
as for the raptors... well, all they are doing are seeking... so, there should be nothing to worry about.
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I think I hear somewhere that it will take about a month or three to finish, depending on the size HDD (or more, for the gigantic ones some of you are filling) and how often you use your computer. It uses times like you said, where you are barely doing anything, to work so it doesn't slow you down.
It took the beta like, 5 months I think before the thrashing finally stopped.
Then it had to do the whole thing again when I installed the final version. Only took about 3 months though. So be thankful MS actually sped it up from release.
New PC's should be fine though, as they usually don't have that much data to work with.
Note that it doesn't/shouldn't be doing it constantly, only under times of low load. If the drive is thrashing when you are trying to play a game, that is bad.
Yeah, I leave my computer on all the time, and I never really noticed any indexing going on.
Mine was 4 feet from where my head was when I slept......it's all I heard at night for months :S
Dunno why, but I had the same issue. Nonstop disk access.
The thing that finally broke my back was when I went into my translation project folder. About 500 pictures from 2 phonebook sized books that I've been working on translating.
Vista spent about 6 HOURS trying to make a thumbnail of that directory. And because it was working on that oh so important task, I couldn't open any images with the picture viewer app, I had to open them in Photoshop directly. Oh, and I couldn't sort the folder.
Oh, and when it finished thumbnailing them, the 30 or so times I tried all opened at once.
Yeah, that was the last straw. I'm on XP and staying on XP until I'm forced to move by DX10 migration.
That's weird. I've never had that problem, even though I have a folder with ~1300 digital camera pictures. Although 500 files in one folder is a lot, and if they were really big files, it seems kind of obvious that it would take a while to go through them to make thumbnails--which is the purpose of pre-indexing stuff.
It is weird. I've got Vista on three machines (one work, two home) and have seen indexing actually happening once since January. It was on my laptop, which is turned off more than the others.