Make Windows XP More Stable… Remove Desktop Search
After downgrading from Vista I wanted something like the built in search that Vista has. So I went looking and what I found is what Microsoft calls their “Live Desktop Search”. Desktop Search searches in the background when your computer is idle or when you right click the icon in the taskbar and click “Index Now”. Overall it’s pretty fast when you want to search but it’s got one main problem. The problem happens when you have to shutdown other than by going to “Start” and doing it the old fashioned way; “Desktop Search” will automatically clear out the index you’ve already indexed (odds are it took several days just like mine did) and starts over from scratch. This wouldn’t be such a problem unless XP became so unstable since “Service Pack 3”… so now my install crashes quite often. But what I found out is that it wasn’t “Service Pack 3” making XP unstable it was “Desktop Search”. Ironically after installing “Desktop Search” to make my life easier it was the application making my life so much harder. So basically I would stay from any program that does desktop search in general, just use what’s built into your operating system, it was designed to work the operating system originally, so it shouldn’t make it unstable unlike any third party add-ons.
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