Configure Windows Indexing Service for Performance

Written by Stephen Bucaro


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Configure Windows Indexing Service for Performance

By Stephen Bucaro

The Windows Indexing Service provides you withrepparttar 107643 ability to perform advanced searches on directories located on your computer and on shared directories onrepparttar 107644 network. The Indexing Service was introduced with IIS (Internet Information Services) and is now installed with Windows 2000 and Windows XP.

The Indexing Service is not started by default on a Windows 2000 professional computer. If you wantrepparttar 107645 Indexing service to start automatically, select "Start | Settings | Control Panel | Administrative Tools" and openrepparttar 107646 "Computer Management" application. Inrepparttar 107647 left pane ofrepparttar 107648 "Computer Management" window, select "Services", then inrepparttar 107649 right pane, right-click on "Indexing Service". The "Indexing Services Properties" dialog box will appear.

Inrepparttar 107650 "Indexing Services Properties" dialog box, onrepparttar 107651 "General" tab select "Automatic" fromrepparttar 107652 "Startup type:" drop-down list. Under "Service stautus:" click onrepparttar 107653 "Start" button. A flurry of hard disk activity may begin asrepparttar 107654 Indexing Service builds or updatesrepparttar 107655 index. The Indexing service creates an index (also called a catalog) organized in a way that makes it quick and easy to search. The Indexing Service also recordsrepparttar 107656 documents properties, for example its date of creation and last modified date.

The Search application can be accessed by right-clicking on any folder and selecting "Search..." inrepparttar 107657 popup menu. You can search for file names or you can search for text within files using keywords, or phases. Queries can use wildcards (?, *) and boolean operators (AND OR and NOT). When a user searches an NTFS volume,repparttar 107658 Indexing service will return inrepparttar 107659 results onlyrepparttar 107660 filesrepparttar 107661 user has permission to see.

The documents created by most applications contain formatting and control information, for example a webpage contains html tags, a Word document contains rtf tags. The Indexing Service uses filters to extractrepparttar 107662 content fromrepparttar 107663 formatting and control information. Documents with extensions for which filters are not installed will not be indexed by default. If you want to index everything, openrepparttar 107664 "Computer Management" application as described above, and select "Services ...", then right-click on "Indexing Service" and select "Properties" inrepparttar 107665 popup menu. Inrepparttar 107666 "Indexing Services Properties" dialog box which appears, onrepparttar 107667 "Generation" tab, checkrepparttar 107668 checkbox next to "Index Files With Unknown Extensions".

The Indexing service is designed to run continuously and requires no maintenance. After it is setup, it will automatically updaterepparttar 107669 index. When a file changes,repparttar 107670 OS sends a change notification torepparttar 107671 Indexing Service, causing it to updaterepparttar 107672 index. Folders on remote computers are scanned periodically.

Sci-Fi Communications at Home

Written by Jesse S. Somer


Computers and web cams are taking communication to levels only imagined in sci-fi novels.

One ofrepparttar most incredible inventions I’ve ever come across isrepparttar 107640 web cam and its process of video conferencing. This is just so futuristic I can’t believe they really exist and are readily available to anyone withrepparttar 107641 Internet, speakers, andrepparttar 107642 right software. I’m not absolutely sure but doesn’t this spellrepparttar 107643 end of telephones? Now we can have conversations with people onrepparttar 107644 other side ofrepparttar 107645 world, and see their face moving as we hear them speaking live.

Picture this: You’re an Antarctic explorer on a solo journey inrepparttar 107646 middle ofrepparttar 107647 ice and snow on your way torepparttar 107648 South Pole. The only living creatures around arerepparttar 107649 slippery penguins sliding around having fun. You’re in your special tent keeping safe fromrepparttar 107650 intense wind fromrepparttar 107651 blizzard outside. As you boil up water on your portable stove you flip open your laptop (with battery recharger, broadband Internet, and in-built speakers) and connect with your family back in Russia. You can see their smiles as you hear them speak. What a magical connection!

Another great aspect of video conferencing isrepparttar 107652 fact that you can communicate with whole groups of people at once either through networking a group of computers or by form of broadcast. This is a huge step forward for both companies and for schools. I’ve heard corporations have saved a lot of money and time, and students are enjoying learning this way much more than from a textbook. Informed people can talk to classes and help them learn, where otherwise they wouldn’t be able to because of time and distance restrictions. This is also a bonus for children who have different learning styles. E.G. The more visual types who understand better when they can see what they’re working with.

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