XP Pro SP2 and SLOW search

[Guest Gregg Hill]

Hello!

 

I have a friend whose search function in Windows XP Pro SP2 has gotten

brutally slow. When he opens the search window and types in a file name or

search for text in a file, then clicks Search Now, it appears to hang with

nothing in the right-hand pane. If it is left alone, the word "searching"

will come up after about five minutes, followed by some results. If he

clicks in the window while it is blank, the title bar switches to "not

responding" for about five minutes, then it searches.

 

Last week, it worked normally. He said that he was having some problems with

MusicMatch Jukebox and removed it, which is when he thinks the problems

began. We reinstalled MMJ and it still takes ages to start a search. I have

deleted the LowerFilters and UpperFilters keys in the registry.

 

The indexing service is running, Google desktop search and Windows Desktop

Search are not installed, and the disk has been defragged.

 

Any idea what could make the search function take so long to start?

 

Thank you!

 

Gregg Hill

[Guest JS]

Re: XP Pro SP2 and SLOW search

 

Try temporarily stopping the 'Indexing' service and see if there is any

improvement.

If that does not help then I would look at Google's 'Desktop' as a cause for

the slowdown.

 

JS

 

"Gregg Hill" <bogus@nowhere.com> wrote in message

news:OjX8IZ%23dIHA.2268@TK2MSFTNGP02.phx.gbl...

> Hello!

>

> I have a friend whose search function in Windows XP Pro SP2 has gotten

> brutally slow. When he opens the search window and types in a file name or

> search for text in a file, then clicks Search Now, it appears to hang with

> nothing in the right-hand pane. If it is left alone, the word "searching"

> will come up after about five minutes, followed by some results. If he

> clicks in the window while it is blank, the title bar switches to "not

> responding" for about five minutes, then it searches.

>

> Last week, it worked normally. He said that he was having some problems

> with MusicMatch Jukebox and removed it, which is when he thinks the

> problems began. We reinstalled MMJ and it still takes ages to start a

> search. I have deleted the LowerFilters and UpperFilters keys in the

> registry.

>

> The indexing service is running, Google desktop search and Windows Desktop

> Search are not installed, and the disk has been defragged.

>

> Any idea what could make the search function take so long to start?

>

> Thank you!

>

> Gregg Hill

>

[Guest Gregg Hill]

Re: XP Pro SP2 and SLOW search

 

I did kill the indexing service with no change. Google desktop is not

installed.

 

Gregg Hill

 

 

"JS" <@> wrote in message news:%23hy5xk%23dIHA.5856@TK2MSFTNGP05.phx.gbl...

> Try temporarily stopping the 'Indexing' service and see if there is any

> improvement.

> If that does not help then I would look at Google's 'Desktop' as a cause

> for the slowdown.

>

> JS

>

> "Gregg Hill" <bogus@nowhere.com> wrote in message

> news:OjX8IZ%23dIHA.2268@TK2MSFTNGP02.phx.gbl...

>> Hello!

>>

>> I have a friend whose search function in Windows XP Pro SP2 has gotten

>> brutally slow. When he opens the search window and types in a file name

>> or search for text in a file, then clicks Search Now, it appears to hang

>> with nothing in the right-hand pane. If it is left alone, the word

>> "searching" will come up after about five minutes, followed by some

>> results. If he clicks in the window while it is blank, the title bar

>> switches to "not responding" for about five minutes, then it searches.

>>

>> Last week, it worked normally. He said that he was having some problems

>> with MusicMatch Jukebox and removed it, which is when he thinks the

>> problems began. We reinstalled MMJ and it still takes ages to start a

>> search. I have deleted the LowerFilters and UpperFilters keys in the

>> registry.

>>

>> The indexing service is running, Google desktop search and Windows

>> Desktop Search are not installed, and the disk has been defragged.

>>

>> Any idea what could make the search function take so long to start?

>>

>> Thank you!

>>

>> Gregg Hill

>>

>

>