Track Down the Indexing Service
Check to see if the Indexing Service is running on your computer.
The Indexing Service is available from the Computer Management console, and you can use this console to configure, control, and query the service. As mentioned earlier, the Indexing Service is not necessary for the average home user, and may be running in the background unnecessarily, using system resources.
To open this console and access the service to see if it’s running:
1. Right-click My Computer and choose Manage. The My Computer
icon is probably on the desktop and/or the Start menu.
2. Under Computer Management (Local), expand Services And
Applications.
3. Click Indexing Service. (Notice
that the items under the Indexing Service are also expanded in this
screen shot. This is simply for reference later.)
If you don’t see anything in the Size column (on the title bar in the rightpane) or any of the other columns to the right of it, the service is not running. To start the service, click Action | Start. (You can also use the DVD-type icons
on the menu bar.) To stop the service, right-click Indexing Service and click Stop.The items directly under the Indexing Service are the catalogs. Catalogs hold the indexed information. By default, there is one, System.You can add additional catalogs from the Action menu. The System catalog has two subfolders, Directories and Properties, and an option to query the catalog. Directories are created when the indexing is done, and can include folders for Documents and Settings and for entire drives. You can create new directories from the Action menu. including information such as the date the document was created, the author name, the document’s size, and more. If you decide that you can use and benefit from the Indexing Service, you’ll want to learn quite a bit more about it. To
do so, in the Computer Management console, select Indexing Service and click Help | Help Topics.