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by lrojas1

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Indexing is slowing down my laptop. Can I stop it permanently?? if not can I set it up to just index once a month, week???? Can I just stop it and never ler it run again????

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by older mycroft

If you're running XP go to:

Start > Run > type [b]services.msc[/b] > Enter.
Scroll down to 'Indexing', right click it and change it from [u]Automatic[/u] to either [u]Disabled[/u] or, if you want to play it safe, [u]Manual[/u].

Then when you're happy with it set at [u]Manual[/u] you can go back and change it to [u]Disabled[/u].

End of.

If you are running Vista you'll have to wait for a more adventurous peer to come along as to tell you how to get rid of [b]Super Prefetch[/b] since I am the antithesis of everything Vista-related. :)

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