I'm using Windows Desktop Search 3 in Win XP, in part because of its close linkage to Outlook/Office 2007 (which I recently upgraded to as well). Overally, I'm pretty happy with WDS, except for one thing:
It appears to do an automatic file re-scan on every system re-start/boot-up, and that significantly slows down my system start-up time. I'm wondering if there might be some type of command-line switch that might at least delay the start-up re-scan in WDS (for example, by forcing a "snooze" in the boot-up re-scan for some period of time).
So far, the only thing I've been able to do is use a start-up program manager (Startup Faster 2004) to force WDS to be the last program that starts up. That, at least, gives my other startup programs a head start before WDS starts sucking up all my resources. But I'd really like to find some more elegant solution-- some way to delay (or even prevent) WDS's automatic re-index at system start-up. After all, it already has a full re-index scheduler built-in (which I have set for overnight). I don't know why it needs another one at every startup.
Thanks in advance for any good suggestions.
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