Well another tip to squeeze all the speed out of Your Windows Vista Machine comes from a recently released update in the form of
Windows Search 4.0 http://www.microsoft.com/windows/products/winfamily/desktopsearch/default.mspx
This release works for Windows Server 2008, 2003 and Vista.
Had this installed on my laptop for a few days and boy it really seems faster, for a full list of improvements check out the link above.
- Indexing improvements for online e-mail
- Improvements to performance & stability of the indexer
- Fuller complement of Group Policy settings, on all supported operating systems
- Faster sorting and grouping of results in Windows Explorer
- Support for indexing (local file system) encrypted documents
- Expanded ability to perform fast remote queries of file shares, including those on XP and Server 2003. Including automatic indexing of shared folders.
scottbelton@tiscali.co.uk