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This might help, I'm no expert, but I have played around with indexing and search myself because I didn't like the idea of windows indexing everything.
There are many options to help manage indexing & searching in GP. Open your local group policy editor, Administrative Templates/Windows Components/Search.
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In search you will find many options that might help cool down that cpu and slow down the need for Windows to do all this indexing. You can also set times for indexing and mark partitions for no indexing, etc.
Honestly if you go to Control Panel and type index, choose index options, you can select from there what windows will index and what it won't under the modify button. When searching for whats marked sometimes its not always clear. For example the Documents folder of a user might be indexed, but the users folder in the modify indexing tree won't show the user's block blue even though it is indexing a users Documents. The only thing I have it index is my start menu. Just because something isn't indexed, doesn't mean windows won't find it during a search, it will. It just might take longer, you might have seen that banner at the top of explorer a time or two when you were searching in un-indexed folders.
Last edited by OEM; 01 Jan 2011 at 18:43.