[CS-FSLUG] [OT] Windows XP does something fishy

Josiah Ritchie jritchie at bible.edu
Fri May 21 07:14:23 CDT 2004


On Fri, 2004-05-21 at 00:53, David Aikema wrote:
> On Thursday 20 May 2004 02:47 pm, @ndrew wrote:
> > I *believe*, but don't quote me on this, that Windows XP indexes files for
> > faster searching, etc. while you're not using your computer. Depending on
> 
> That's what I was going to suggest as well.  The same sort of thing is also 
> setup by default as a cron job on most Linux distros that I've used

If you have MS Office installed, there is something that installs for
this purpose of "making things faster to find". I am in the habit of
disabling it.

JSR/





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