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----------------------------------------------------------Permission is granted for the below article to forward,reprint, distribute, use for ezine, newsletter, website,offer as free bonus or part of a product for sale as longas no changes are made and the byline, copyright, and theresource box below is included. ----------------------------------------------------------Configure Windows Indexing Service for PerformanceBy Stephen BucaroThe Windows Indexing Service provides you with the abilityto perform advanced searches on directories located on yourcomputer and on shared directories on the network. TheIndexing Service was introduced with IIS (InternetInformation Services) and is now installed with Windows2000 and Windows XP.The Indexing Service is not started by default on a Windows2000 professional computer. If you want the Indexingservice to start automatically, select "Start | Settings |Control Panel | Administrative Tools" and open the"Computer Management" application. In the left pane of the"Computer Management" window, select "Services", then inthe right pane, right-click on "Indexing Service". The"Indexing Services Properties" dialog box will appear.In the "Indexing Services Properties" dialog box, on the"General" tab select "Automatic" from the "Startup type:"drop-down list. Under "Service stautus:" click on the"Start" button. A flurry of hard disk activity may beginas the Indexing Service builds or updates the index. TheIndexing service creates an index (also called a catalog)organized in a way that makes it quick and easy to search.The Indexing Service also records the documents properties,for example its date of creation and last modified date.The Search application can be accessed by right-clickingon any folder and selecting "Search..." in the popup menu.You can search for file names or you can search for textwithin files using keywords, or phases. Queries can usewildcards (?, *) and boolean operators (AND OR and NOT).When a user searches an NTFS volume, the Indexing servicewill return in the results only the files the user haspermission to see.The documents created by most applications containformatting and control information, for example a webpagecontains html tags, a Word document contains rtf tags. TheIndexing Service uses filters to extract the content fromthe formatting and control information. Documents withextensions for which filters are not installed will not beindexed by default. If you want to index everything, openthe "Computer Management" application as described above,and select "Services ...", then right-click on "IndexingService" and select "Properties" in the popup menu. In the"Indexing Services Properties" dialog box which appears,on the "Generation" tab, check the checkbox next to "IndexFiles With Unknown Extensions".The Indexing service is designed to run continuously andrequires no maintenance. After it is setup, it willautomatically update the index. When a file changes, theOS sends a change notification to the Indexing Service,causing it to update the index. Folders on remote computersare scanned periodically.The Windows Indexing Service uses a fair amount of diskspace (approximately 30% the amount of the original files).If the shared directories on the network are large, it canconsume a considerable portion of the computer's memory andprocessor cycles. There are several options for configuringthe Indexing Service to improve performance.To configure the Indexing Service select "Start | Settings| Control Panel | Administrative Tools" and open the"Computer Management" application. In the left pane of the"Computer Management" window, click the plus sign next to"Services and Applications", then right-click on the"Indexing Service" icon. In the popup menu, select"All Tasks | Tune Performance". The "Indexing Service Usage"dialog box will appear.The "Indexing Service Usage" dialog box provides threeradio button options that let Windows set the IndexingService Performance for you; "Used often","Used occasionally", and "Never Used". If you want toprovide your own custom setting, set the "Customize"radio button and click on the "Customize..." button. The"Desired Performance" dialog box will appear.The "Desired Performance" dialog box contains two slidercontrols. The "Indexing" slider control sets how quicklythe catalog will be updated. Adjust it to the left toreduce the amount of system resources used to update thecatalog. The "Querying" slider control sets how quicklysearch results will be returned. Adjusting it to the leftwill reduce the amount of system resources used, but searchresults will take longer to return.You can also control the Indexing Service by configuringthe specific folders to be indexed. When you click on the"Indexing Service" icon in the "Computer Management" window,the right pane should list a catalog named "System". Whenyou double-click on a catalog, you will find three folders,"Directories", "Properties", and "Query The Catalog".Note: If Internet Information Server (IIS) is installed onyour computer, you should also see a catalog named "Web".The Web catalog scans the C:Inetpub directory.To add a folder to be indexed, right-click on the"Directories" folder and select "New | Directory" in thepopup menu. In the "Add Directory" dialog box that appears,enter the path of the new directory. To remove a folder,left-click on the "Directories" folder to display the listof directories in the right pane. Then left-click on adirectory and select "Delete" in the popup menu.----------------------------------------------------------Resource Box:Copyright(C) Bucaro TecHelp. 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