Hi guys,
My company is just rolling out Windows 7 and we get claims from the users that the search process in Windows 7 is much slower than in Windows XP.
Users cannot add additional locations to the Search Index because we have disabled this through group policies.
The D:\ drive for example is not indexed, but why is searching taking 3x longer on Windows 7 than Windows XP?
I can only guess, but two probable reasons:
- The large size of the C:\Windows\winsxs folder is causing searches to take longer than in XP, which would (on average) have a considerably lower count of files and folders on the C: drive.
- Since the Windows 7 systems are newly installed, it takes a few days for everything to be completely indexed until search can take full advantage of said indexing.
My C:\Windows\winsxs folder is 7,80 GB in size.
My Windows Client is installed for 1 month already. The index should already be created. But searching in unindexed locations still takes very long.
PS: our C:\ drive is not fully indexed. Only these locations are included in the index:
- Internet Explorer History
- Offline Files
- Start Menu
- Users
Last edited by uidl7526; 25 Nov 2011 at 06:29.
Gentlemen, did Windows XP search automatically inside documents?
Because Windows 7 seems to do so.
Might that be the reason why searching is so slow?
Hi guys, we didn't find any solution for this, so we included the location to the index
So, I will mark this thread as solved (by workaround).
Merry Christmas !
I use a third party utility and disable Windows own search and indexing.
By comparison search results are literally always instant...
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