Windows XP keeps a track of all the files and folders present on your hard drive in order to retrieve the details of these in quick time when you are searching for particular files or texts in files using the Search function.
This service seems very useful on first instance, but if you are a person who does not use the search tool quite often then this process of indexing your files isn’t as useful as it can be to someone who uses the search tool regularly. This is because this feature is running continuously in the background and thus reducing the amount of RAM available for other processes.
This feature can be disabled from the Properties option that appears when we right click on the drive in My Computer. To disable this function follow the below guidelines :
1) Open My Computer from Start Menu.
2) Right click on any drive letter.
3) A dialog box appears. Select Properties which is last item in dialog box.
4) Uncheck the option that says, “Allow Indexing Service to index this disk for fast file searching”.
5) Repeat the above process for all the remaining drives.
Although the above given process increases your PC speed a quite an amount, it does not do it upto 50% or more.
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