How To Increase Your Windows Xp PC Speed By Disabling Indexing

Almost everybody who uses windows xp looks for a way to improve its speed.There are a lot of ways to improve speed.One of the ways is to disable certain windows xp service that you dont use which can drastically improve system speed.One such service is windows xp search indexing.If you are a person who doesnt use the windows xp search that often then you can follow this.Even by disabling windows xp search indexing , you can still continue to search for files using the windows xp search although the searching would be a little bit slower.But by disabling windows xp search indexing you can improve your system speed as windows xp uses a lot of RAM and CPU resources for indexing each and every file whenever it has been modified , created , copied, removed etc. Thus almost every single step or move made by your pc involves indexing therefore a lot fo RAM and CPU power is used which could be used for some useufl applications instead.So here's how you disable or turn of indexing :

Turn Of Indexing :

Step 1 : Click on "My Computer" on your desktop and windows explorer should open

Step 2 : Now right click on on your hard drive( C: drive) and click on Properties

Step 3 : Then uncheck the box that says "Allow Indexing Service to index this disk for file searching" as shown in the screenshot below

Step 4 : Click on Apply

Disable Indexing Service :
Since you no longer are going to use the indexing service you can disable it at startup itself

Step 1 : Click on The Start Menu and choose Run

Step 2 : Then type services.msc in the Run menu

Step 3 : Then look for Indexing Service and right click on it and click on Properties

Step 4 : The under startup type select Disabled and click on Apply and close all Windows


You now have the indexing service disabled and you should experience a little boost in your pc.Remember the windows xp search feature can still be used although searching may take a longer time!!