>>>> The indexing service I switched off only today because we just don't need that.
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>>You might want to reconsider that. All the search functionality - for the file system, media and the start menu is all tied to the indexing engine. The indexing engine gives you quick access to anything in the system including content in documents. It'd be kinda silly to turn this off as this is one of the core features of Vista. Search may still work but won't be as fast or complete.
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>>The engine will use a bit of disk activity once it creates the first index but after that indexing overhead is minimal...
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>Never use the search feature. Never did in prior versions either. I dont think under Vista that it was much of a resource hog but I simply do not use it. On a blue moon I may want to find a file but then the standard file search is sufficient.

Do youuse the start menu? <s>

And if you aren't (using the StartMenu's Search box) you're missing one of the nicest features in Vista in terms of productivity (no more hunting for applications to run).

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