Windows Indexing Services

Windows Indexing Services

Windows Indexing Services creates a searchable database that makes system searches for words and files progress much faster – however, it takes an enormous amount of hard drive space as well as a significant amount of extra CPU cycles to maintain the system. Most users will want to disable this service to release the resources for use by the system.
To turn off indexing,
open My Computer and right click on the drive on which you wish to disable the Indexing Service.
Enter the drive's properties and under the general tab, untick the box for "Allow the Indexing Service to index this disk for fast file searching."