Windows® XP comes with a nifty indexing service that was designed to help speed up your searches for documents, folders and other files. Unfortunately it doesn’t work as well or as fast as it was designed. It actually slows your computer’s performance. Microsoft® fixed the issue in Windows Vista® but for those Certified Legal Nurse Consultants and people like me who are still using XP, you’ll have to take matters into your own hands to nix the index.
Here’s how you do it. First, open up your Control Panel and once it populates (geek-speak for the process of displaying all the icons) double-click Administrative Tools. Once that’s open double-click Services. It will open a new window called Services (Local). Expand that window to full screen so you can locate Indexing Services and double-click it. Change the drop-down next to Startup type from Automatic or Manual to Disabled. Click OK and then close all the windows. You might not notice it, but there will be an increase in your computer’s speed which means you’ll get more legal nurse consulting work product done faster – trust me on this one.
Keep on Techin’,
Tom
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