How to Disable Indexing Services on Your Computer

Indexing services is a service that uses a lot of ram indexing and processing the files on your computer when you do a search on your computer. This service gathers the content from folders and organizes them into an indexed catalog which makes locating them faster and more effective. Indexing service can gather text as well as information from the properties of your files. Then indexing services takes all of these extracted files that it has gathered and extracts it's content by using a filter. Finally after it forms the filters it combines all of these files into catalogs of indexes which makes the whole search process speeder since all the files are organized a certain way. This service tends to index more than actually need making your computer use resources for something you probably won't use often. If your running a slower machine with less ram then I suggest that you disable service to gain back some of your precious memory.

People that have high powered machines with lots of ram might not see any change in performance and speed so it's probably just best to keep indexing services enabled. The program is completely unneeded and disabling it won't hurt your computer, but will actually make it faster. If you a type of person who never uses the search function on your computer than removing this service is the way to go. Since this service is hogging ram and your not even using it's best to disable it for better overall computer performance. This program makes your searches somewhat faster, but if you don't use the search function to find files on your computer here's how to disable it. By following these easy steps your computer will use less ram resulting in faster speeds and efficient performance for your computer.

1.)Click on start and go to control panel

2.)Double click on add or remove programs icon

3.)Now click on the add or remove window components tab

4.)Uncheck the box called indexing services then click next

After you click next a screen will pop up and after it's done removing the indexing services it's done. You may not notice much of a difference at first but with all of these other methods combined with this one your computer will be more stable,use less ram, and will process much faster then before.