Comments on: How To Turn Off Indexing Of Your Local Drive In Windows 7 / Vista /XP

By: Tom

Tom — Thu, 11 Aug 2011 15:19:55 +0000

my win 7 pro looks different to the above – instead of “Index this drive for faster searching”, I get
“Allow files on this drive to have contents indexed in addition to the file properties”.
Which left me scratching my head – is that being indexed or not ?
Go to control panel >Indexing Options >Advanced and check there what is being indexed – I dont know if you need to be admin (I’m on admin a/c with uac on highest setting)

By: Winger

Winger — Fri, 20 May 2011 23:22:57 +0000

To the above comments; XP Home does not have all features of XP’s operating system. I haven’t got a copy of XP handy but this feature is most likely in XP Pro.

By: Brian

Brian — Sat, 27 Feb 2010 22:36:20 +0000

Thanks, after trying several things in XP to get it to turn off. This worked.

By: XPdoes

XPdoes — Thu, 18 Feb 2010 06:25:34 +0000

Um, yes it does.

By: rebel

rebel — Sun, 31 Jan 2010 17:24:27 +0000

Idiot.. XP does not have an indexing option

By: David

David — Thu, 11 Dec 2008 03:50:44 +0000

My XP home does not have the indexing check box.