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Remove/Uninstall Indexing Service

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by arhemed

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I am running WinXP and have indexing service turned off. Everytime I restart my machine, it turns back on. Is there any way to uninstall it or remove it? Any help is greatly appresiated.

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by timthetoolman

Hi,

You can disable it... Not sure whether you're usin XP Pro or Home, but for Pro, on the control panel, choose PErformnce and Maintenance then Administrative Tools, then Services.

Open up services, open up the indexing service and change the"Startup Type" to be disabled.

XP Home has a different path to get to services - but it still has it. You'll still find it off the control panel somewhere, but I'm not sure exactly where...

Cheers,
Tim.

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