Hey Shawn,

I'm a little confused about the poor choice of wording Microsoft has chosen to use (imo) of what enabled vs. disabled really means for Indexer Backoff.

At the beginning of the tutorial, in the information section you state:

If enabled, backoff logic will be used to throttle back indexing activity when system activity is high.

If disabled, indexing will continue at full speed even when system activity is high.

Clicking on the "Disable indexer backoff" brings up the window which provides "Help" text for the choices:

Not Configured or Disabled [Default Setting]:

• If disabled, backoff logic will be used to throttle back indexing activity when system activity is high. (slower indexing)

Enabled:

• If enabled, the search indexer backoff feature will be disabled. Indexing will continue at full speed even when system activity is high. (faster indexing)

Is this not the opposite of what you have in the information section of this tutorial, or have I confused enabled/disabled with what Microsoft's enabled/disabled means?

It sure would seem a lot easier to simply emit "backoff" completely, and just say:
"(1) Would you like the indexer to run at full speed regardless of activity? (2) Would you like it to adjust to your activity level and slow down while you are working and take longer to complete?"

Thanks for any advice. I would love to run your batch files to make things easier when I want to complete indexing faster and then run the other to slow it back down to default later.

Thanks so much Brink!

I was having trouble wrapping my head around the wording.

Those registry entries you've created are great! How would I go about writing .bat files to swap between these two states instead of using registry entries? Would batch files use the same syntax you used? I'm guessing not now that I think of it, since registry entries are very different than commands, is that right?

I am looking for a way to have to batch files on the desktop while I experiment with the indexer in the next while. One for each of those two states. I'm not interested in turning off (disabling) the search indexer permanently like some do, but I would like to be able to run them as an Admin without having to have the UAC pop-up every time.

Thanks very much for any advice and guidance!