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Improve Windows search

January 28, 2010
Updated: December 6, 2021
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Founded Windows Tweaks as a teenager in the 90s. His helpful PC tricks made it Germany's most visited Windows site (at the time Sandro looked like this). He then went on to write elsewhere, for example for PC-Praxis, Computer Bild and PCWorld in the USA. Microsoft also poached him from us. Now Sandro is back, finally sharing his tweaks here again. For a stress-free digital everyday life. You can reach Sandro via e-mail.

11 comments on: Improve Windows search

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  2. On your own pages you indicate elsewhere "https://www.windows-tweaks.info/html/indexaus.html" that indexing should be switched off for performance reasons - here it is explicitly switched on! Why?

  3. Hi Wiesodn, in Windows 7 the indexing is now so sophisticated that it causes little to no performance drop! We recently confirmed this theory for the TuneUp blog - where I actively work as editor-in-chief: http://blog.tune-up.com/myth-buster/myth-busters-is-windows-search-a-true-performance-hog/ Here are detailed benchmarks before and after using the Windows search service!

    On older XP or Vista computers, I would switch off the indexing service if it is not explicitly required. Under Windows 7, however, it makes no difference.

    I hope I have been able to help,
    Sandro Villinger

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