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How To Speed Up Your Windows XP By Disabling File Indexing

4 May 2009 11 Comments



indexingFile indexing is a Windows service that like many others, is totally useless – unless you do a lot of searching on your computer. As most users don’t, it’s a good idea to disable it to speed up actions like opening and closing files and folders on your Windows XP.

To disable the Indexing Service:

Go to “My Computer” and right click on your hard drive. At the bottom of the window that opens, you should see a check box titled “Allow Indexing Service to index the disk for fast file searching.”  Uncheck it.

Press OK and you’re done! Your computer should be a little faster after a restart.

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