"Wolffoley" wrote in message
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In case it helps....
In Task Manager=Services the Indexing Service "CISVC" is listed as
"Stopped."

In Control Panel= Indexing options, it says "Indexing is not running."
We don't have the ability to turn it on--it's just off, and all buttons
greyed out.

In Control Panel=Administrative tools=Services=Windows Search, I
have just set it to "Disabled" as recommended in this website 'Disable
and Turn Off Windows Vista Search Indexer and Indexing Service » My
Digital Life'
(http://www.mydigitallife.info/2007/0...exing-service/)
[we did this once before, but it seems to have gone back to
"Automatic." I have disabled it again.]

I haven't yet turned off the indexing for the C and D drives from
Windows Explorer as is also described in the article above, but did turn
it off for our backup drive.


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Wolffoley

Do you have Windows Search 4.0 installed? If so, go to Control Panel,
Programs and Features and uninstall it. That may take care of it. I have
that uninstalled, Windows Search service disabled, and indexing turned off
on my HDD. For searching for files, etc., I use Agent Ransack (
http://www.mythicsoft.com/agentransa...aspx?page=home ), and find it to
be one of the better search engines.

SC Tom