WDS under Vista has huge performance issues for me- even after allowing 5 days for it to index, my HD runs excessively. The worst performance hits are when I'm running anything full-screen DirectX, at which point every 10-20 sec, I'll hit a pause of 1-2 seconds. Irritating.
What I'd like to be able to do is stop the service from a command line. In XP, you could do this with something like "Net Stop "Windows Search"" in a batch file. In Vista, I get "System Error 5 has occured. Access is denied."
Any workaround And I mean to the command line problem, not the performance problems...
Stopping Search from a command line?
Carver42
TL_Norman,
You can pause the indexer by simply doing the following:
In 2.6.x you can simply right click on the magnifying glass in the system tray and choose snooze indexing for 1 hour.
In 3.0 you can right click on the magnifying glass and the pick how long you would like the indexer to snooze.
Paul Nystrom - MSFT
bennett_chen
Hil,
I'm looking into a command line snooze option for Vista. I'll let you know when/if I find something.
Paul Nystrom - MSFT
steal
RB_Banc
Hil,
Here is the information you are looking for:
From an elevated command prompt:
To Pause: cscript \\back\scratch\WSearch\Tools\Scripts\pause.vbs
To Resume: cscript \\back\scratch\WSearch\Tools\Scripts\resume.vbs
Paul Nystrom - MSFT