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Indexing - Pause

How to Pause the Windows 7 Index
Published 23 Jul 2009
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How to Pause the Windows 7 Index

information   Information
Windows 7 uses the index to perform very fast searches on your computer. The index will often run (indexing) in the background to rebuild and update for changes made to the included index locations since the last index rebuild to increase search result accuracy. This will show you how to pause indexing for 15 minutes at a time if you happen to need the extra resources at that time. After 15 minutes indexing will resume.
Note   Note
By defualt, the indexing speed is reduced due to user activity. If the computer is running idle, then the indexing speed will be at full speed instead to finish indexing faster.



Here's How:
1. Open the Control Panel (All Items view), and double click on the Indexing Options icon.

2. If the index is indexing, then click on the Pause button. (See screenshot below)
NOTE: If the Pause button is grayed out, then that means that either indexing is complete or already paused.
Indexing - Pause-step1.jpg
3. If prompted by UAC, then click on Yes.

4. You will now see that indexing is paused. Click on Close. (See screenshot below)
Indexing - Pause-step2.jpg
That's it,
Shawn





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