Indexing Service

The Windows Indexing Service is included in Windows 2000 and Windows XP service that indexes the hard disk contents. By using this service can be performed within a few seconds searches; not only a search for file names, but also in the content of the files (full text search). The indexing service taken into account in the full text search only once only standard formats, such as *. Txt, as well as some Microsoft formats, such as *. Doc, *. Xls. About so-called iFilter Indexing Service can also perform a full-text search in other file formats, such as Adobe PDF, RTF, OpenDocument ( OASIS OpenDocument file format), JFIF (metadata ), XML or MP3 ( ID3 tags).

On the web you will find instructions on how to turn off the Indexing Service as a resource- hungry applicable. Remarkably, enjoy the published since 2004 by desktop search utilities (such as Google Desktop or Copernic Desktop Search ) great popularity, even though they provide a service to index similar functionality in the core.

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