Can I force full speed to the indexing service of Windows?

Question

On windows 7 there's 'pause' and there's 'indexing speed is reduced due to user activity' but what if one wants full speed during desktop activity?

Answer 1

Here is a page that gives that answer:

http://blog.tiensivu.com/aaron/archives/1761-Windows-Search-4-still-throttles-itself-too-much-little-known-XP-Vista-Windows-7-performance-tweak-that-works.html

Answer 2

"Searchindexer.exe" in task manager (you may have to show processes from all users), you can set the priority for that program in there.

Right click on Searchindexer.exe, select Priority> Above Normal or High (never select "real time")

http://techblissonline.com/run-program-process-cpu-priority-windows-vista-xp/

The down side:

It could slow desktop performance or lock up the system if set to high of a priority, A restart of the system or kill the process will clear this setting.

You have to set this every time SearchIndexer loads.

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Here is some software that can change the priority on a permanent basis, I wold not make a permanent change utill you have experimented with settings first, it could cause problems when booting if you choose a too high priority and set it permanently.

http://www.prnwatch.com/prio.html

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