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Tunnelcat · Post by **Tunnelcat** » Sun Feb 10, 2013 3:10 pm

Anybody ever turn off the damn thing in Windows 7, or restrict what it can search?

Spidey · Post by **Spidey** » Sun Feb 10, 2013 5:02 pm

Sure, I have it turned off on my backup drives, and any other drives I don’t search for files. If you turn it off on the drives you do file searches on…they can take forever.

Krom · Post by **Krom** » Sun Feb 10, 2013 6:14 pm

Disabled for my SSD because it is irrelevant on one.

Tunnelcat · Post by **Tunnelcat** » Mon Feb 11, 2013 10:19 am

The reason I'm curious is that it appears that the Indexer on my gaming rig seems to like to "search and index" optical disks in my D drive when I open Explorer and click on the optical drive. It will sit there for a long time, searching I guess, before Explorer finally displays all the folders and files on the disk. It evens says "searching" in the pane above. I've looked in Index Options, but I can't find that drive selected. This is also one of may times the indexer has not released a registry handle upon shutdown, which invariably gives me the "temporary account" problem when booting the next day.

Krom · Post by **Krom** » Mon Feb 11, 2013 11:55 am

Search indexing should be automatically disabled and totally unavailable for the optical drive(s) in a system (hit properties on the drive letter and on the bottom of the general tab the options for search indexing/file compression shouldn't even be there on any optical drive). As for the "searching", if you have a disk in the drive it can take upwards of 10-15 seconds for some optical drives to spin up and read the contents of the disk within it. So the obvious solution is to not leave a disk in the drive except when you are actually using one, because explorer ignores empty drives.

Tunnelcat · Post by **Tunnelcat** » Mon Feb 11, 2013 5:28 pm

That appears to be the case, But sometimes I want to look at the files on a DVD. I swear it takes ages, sometimes several minutes, to get Explorer to display things.

Grendel · Post by **Grendel** » Mon Feb 11, 2013 6:57 pm

Sounds like a bum DVD drive.

Foil · Post by **Foil** » Tue Feb 12, 2013 10:05 am

Or an hyperactive AV; I've seen them go crazy reading removable media and such, depending on settings.

Tunnelcat · Post by **Tunnelcat** » Tue Feb 12, 2013 10:48 am

Foil wrote:Or an hyperactive AV; I've seen them go crazy reading removable media and such, depending on settings.

Yep, that was it Foil. Stupid me.

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