Tom’s Tuesday Tech Tip: Nix Windows XP Indexing to Speed Up Your Computer for Your Legal Nurse Consulting Business
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.
2 thoughts on “Tom’s Tuesday Tech Tip: Nix Windows XP Indexing to Speed Up Your Computer for Your Legal Nurse Consulting Business”
Hi Tom!
Tom, when I had XP, I used Google desktop and I loved it! It organized all of the things I never seemed able to and it also was so quick at finding things. Well then, I got this new computer and it has Vista on it….(I won’t even go there). Well, I tried to download Google Desktop onto this computer and I guess I’m not able to use it with Vista. It’s heartbreaking! I loved that thing! I could find anything! Even if I just put one word in the search box, it would still pull up all of the documents that contained that word. Is there anything I can do to get that back? Keeping this Vista program? Thanks.
I looked on Google Desktop’s website to help answer your question. Google Desktop 5.9 and later is compatible with 64-bit versions of Windows XP and Vista. To see if your computer is running 64-bit Windows, do the following: Open System by clicking the Start button, click Control Panel, then click System and Maintenance and then click System. Under System you can view the system type. I hope this helps you out. If you need more information, please visit Google’s Desktop.
LegalNurse.com is accredited as a provider of nursing continuing professional development by the American Nurses Credentialing Center’s Commission on Accreditation.
The National Alliance of Certified Legal Nurse Consultants (NACLNC®) is the largest and oldest association of legal nurse consultants.
Need tuition assistance? We've partnered with Sallie Mae to provide financing options.
*The opinions and statements made by Vickie Milazzo, the founder of Medical-Legal Consulting Institute, Inc. are based on her experiences and expertise, should not be applied beyond the specific context provided, and do not guaranty or project actual results. Vickie Milazzo is no longer involved in the operations or management of the business, but is involved as an independent education consultant.
Keep on Techin’,
Hi Tom!
Tom, when I had XP, I used Google desktop and I loved it! It organized all of the things I never seemed able to and it also was so quick at finding things. Well then, I got this new computer and it has Vista on it….(I won’t even go there). Well, I tried to download Google Desktop onto this computer and I guess I’m not able to use it with Vista. It’s heartbreaking! I loved that thing! I could find anything! Even if I just put one word in the search box, it would still pull up all of the documents that contained that word. Is there anything I can do to get that back? Keeping this Vista program? Thanks.
Hi Claire,
I looked on Google Desktop’s website to help answer your question. Google Desktop 5.9 and later is compatible with 64-bit versions of Windows XP and Vista. To see if your computer is running 64-bit Windows, do the following: Open System by clicking the Start button, click Control Panel, then click System and Maintenance and then click System. Under System you can view the system type. I hope this helps you out. If you need more information, please visit Google’s Desktop.