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Just stumbled upon this feature that you can see when you :
1. Open file manager
2. right click your local drive (or any drive really)
3. choose properties
Notice the last checkbox item:
[ ] Allow files on this drive to have contents indexed in addition to file properties
(Normally it will be selected by default)
It looks like :
http://raddev.us/images/cp/fileIndexWin10.png[^]
I turned it off today.
I don't use Microsoft file search. I would use the dir command or something.
Also if I want to find data inside a file I would us console findstr or something.
Turn Off If You Have An SSD?
I see many posts about turning this off if you have an SSD.
Does anyone have additional info on this? Any experience with it? With SSDs?
Why would people say it should be turned off for SSD -- because of too many writes to SSD and limiting it's lifespan?
Just curious about this setting as a general discussion.
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raddevus wrote: Why would people say it should be turned off for SSD -- because of too many writes to SSD and limiting it's lifespan?
Yup.
Incessant reads and writes, when you're not doing anything, and even when you haven't changed anything.
The system drive is worst, because it's almost continually reading a writing, anyway, and it's the system drive that you want to live the longest.
I wanna be a eunuchs developer! Pass me a bread knife!
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Mark_Wallace wrote: Incessant reads and writes
Thanks. That's what I was guessing but wasn't sure.
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What Mark said, but the SSD just doesn't need the indexing help they are so d**** fast.
<blush> I have 3 SSDs in my new laptop. Just realized I needed to turn that feature off....
Charlie Gilley
<italic>Stuck in a dysfunctional matrix from which I must escape...
"Where liberty dwells, there is my country." B. Franklin, 1783
“They who can give up essential liberty to obtain a little temporary safety deserve neither liberty nor safety.” BF, 1759
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Besides indexing works when your pc is idle. So when you finally wake up from nodding off and click something you may interrupt the indexing. I'ts supposed to be waiting on you as a machine is our servant so that's a no no.
I disable MS search service and use Ulta File Search Lite (free and cool too.)
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charlieg wrote: I have 3 SSDs in my new laptop. Just realized I needed to turn that feature off....
That's a part of why I was posting too. I just upgraded to an SSD (another machine than the one shown in the image) and I need to turn it off there too.
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Thanks for posting this. You deserve an upvote.  I have to turn it off on all the family machines. All have SSDs. 
Get me coffee and no one gets hurt!
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Cornelius Henning wrote: Thanks for posting this. You deserve an upvote.
Glad to help. Thanks very much.
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Hey, I use a program called EVERYTHING (voidtools)
It indexes ONLY the filenames/extensions/paths.
OMG, it indexed my music, MILLIONS of source code files, etc.
I hit a windows hot key, start typing, and it finds EVERYTHING (LOL), and supports various search options.
I dont use file indexing... But I do use grepWin. Right click a folder, grewWin, search for my strings. It even can find files MISSING a string (like an include)...
those two tools. 99.99% of my searching needs. Done...
I hope this helps someone
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For the same reasons described below, you can bag superfetch too.
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Have you heard what Obama is going to do now he’s not President? He’s forming a Barock band...
Bad command or file name. Bad, bad command! Sit! Stay! Staaaay...
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Aw, he's even got a trump pet [^]
Sin tack
the any key okay
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and their first song is...
He Dropped a Bomb on me!
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I think you just baroque CP with that post.
if (Object.DividedByZero == true) { Universe.Implode(); }
Meus ratio ex fortis machina. Simplicitatis de formae ac munus. -Foothill, 2016
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Why, that brazen Hussein! 
If you have an important point to make, don't try to be subtle or clever. Use a pile driver. Hit the point once. Then come back and hit it again. Then hit it a third time - a tremendous whack.
--Winston Churchill
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You may rest assured that I'll make a note of it.
You coda invoked a classical soapbox-like cacophony with that phrase
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New Night Lights Maps Open Up Possible Real-Time Applications | NASA[^]:
Quote: Satellite images of Earth at night — often referred to as "night lights" — have been a gee-whiz curiosity for the public and a tool for fundamental research for nearly 25 years. They have provided a broad, beautiful picture, showing how humans have shaped the planet and lit up the darkness. Produced every decade or so, such maps have spawned hundreds of pop-culture uses and dozens of economic, social science and environmental research projects.
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Wow! Hasn't India got brighter in just four years!
Bad command or file name. Bad, bad command! Sit! Stay! Staaaay...
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So you have played around with the slider 
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Yep!
I noticed that in the Islamic countries nearby it (Pakistan, Afghanistan) pretty much all that happened in the same time was some lights going out... 
Bad command or file name. Bad, bad command! Sit! Stay! Staaaay...
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Population increase and development on villages may be the reason
cheers,
Super
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Too much of good is bad,mix some evil in it
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I think some of that has to do with the use of LED lighting.
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That's terrible!
The lizard-aliens' spies will send the images to their invading fleet, showing them where to drop their bombs!
I wanna be a eunuchs developer! Pass me a bread knife!
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Did you ever even hear of Buran, the Russion version of the Space Shuttle? Even if it resembled the Space shuttle very much, there were also some significant differences. It could, at least in theory, take off and fly like an airplane to another location. It then would not have required to be carried on top of a large cargo plane.
I knew one of them had been brought to a museum.[^], but what has become of the others?
My Russian is not so good, but the pictures on this page[^] tell a lot.
The language is JavaScript. that of Mordor, which I will not utter here
This is Javascript. If you put big wheels and a racing stripe on a golf cart, it's still a f***ing golf cart.
"I don't know, extraterrestrial?"
"You mean like from space?"
"No, from Canada."
If software development were a circus, we would all be the clowns.
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