Tip, Turning off Windows Vista Indexing Service

If you use Windows XP or Windows Vista you may want to turn off the index service to tweak your performance. Whether or not, if you are going to use Google Desktop turning off Vista indexing service might be a good idea as you use the Google Desktop search and the Windows Vista desktop search will continue to work anyway. It just needs to crawl through everything and it all takes a longer time but probably worth the performance gain you'll get by turning it off. You can do this by several ways. 2 ways are,

• By right clicking on your hard drivers and uncheck the boxes "Index this drive for faster searching".
  
• Turning off the indexing service. Open run and type in "services.msc" Then disable the service named "Windows Search".