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Originally Posted by stumped
and the more folders you index, the more windows resources you use up, which will slow your PC
indexing is a left over stupid "feature" from old , slow systems which were too slow to do real time searches as needed.
e.g. do you really need the content of internet explorer's history files indexed? - windows thinks you do - by default.
searchindexer is a huge resource hog. open task manager and watch, next time you start windows.
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All true. I've been disabling Indexing service and related since about 2002 on Windows NT ( XP, Vista, 7, 8, 10). It's pointless and possibly even broken. A real time search is more accurate and often pretty quick. Basic XP type search, not the separate Search the Internet & LAN etc even when outside browser.
File Explorer: I missed multiple panes File manager. Then from win7 onward instead of fixing bugs since Win95 they removed features, added confusing different locations for the same content and finally added adverts!
Also Windows is NOT MacOS or Linux. The File Endings need to be displayed, hiding them is a stupid option.
OS indexing of Epubs sounds like a bad idea.
Windows OS indexing might be a good idea if it worked, currently it's just a way to wear out SSDs, use up CPU and RAM and generally make the computer seem like it's got a virus.