Originally Posted by
Fokkerwokker
Silly indexing feature? Wassat????
It's a "clever" utility from MS that spends an inordinate amount of CPU time making and continually updating an index of your hard drives, so that stuff can be found more speedily when wanted. The net effect is that it searches for everything, whether or not you want it, all the time.
Press "Windows" and "E" at the same time, and up pops "My Computer".
Click on each hard drive in turn, right-click, select "Properties". At the bottom there's a box "Allow Indexing Service..." Turn that off if it's on. Tell it you want the change to apply to all files and folders.