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I have seen different discussions on Disabling Indexing Services on XP.<br />
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Some say to uncheck &quot;Allow Indexing Service to index this disk for fast file searching&quot; on the General Tab of each HD's Disk Properties. When you do this the system spends multi minutes going thru all your files and I assume setting a Flag to Allow or Disallow Indexing of each file.<br />
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Others say to Disable the Indexing Service using the Services msc.<br />
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My assumption would be that if you Disable the Indexing Service then it is Disabled for the entire system and it is immaterial what the state of the &quot;Allow Indexing Service to index this disk for fast file searching&quot; Flag is set to for each HD.<br />
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Can anyone knowledgeably support this assumption?
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I have seen different discussions on Disabling Indexing Services on XP.

Some say to uncheck "Allow Indexing Service to index this disk for fast file searching" on the General Tab of each HD's Disk Properties. When you do this the system spends multi minutes going thru all your files and I assume setting a Flag to Allow or Disallow Indexing of each file.

Others say to Disable the Indexing Service using the Services msc.

My assumption would be that if you Disable the Indexing Service then it is Disabled for the entire system and it is immaterial what the state of the "Allow Indexing Service to index this disk for fast file searching" Flag is set to for each HD.

Can anyone knowledgeably support this assumption?

Disabling Indexing Service

Microsoft Windows XP is the sixth release of the NT series of operating systems, and was the first to be marketed in a variety of editions: XP Home and XP Professional, designed for business and power users. The advanced features in XP Professional are generally disabled in Home Edition, but are there and can be activated. There were two 64-bit editions, an embedded edition and a tablet edition.