Vista Disk Indexing - Stopping it?

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Hey guys. I've found that if I come back to my PC after a long time, and it has gone into Locked mode, that my CPU temperature gets quite high, from around 23C when I left it, to anywhere above 45C and onwards, even to 78C, like it is now.

I have been told that this is largelyt due to the disk indexing that Vista seems so intent on doing. I seem to have gathered that the indexing is largely unnessesary, and can be disabled, the question is how? Had a scout around Vista, but couldn't seem to find anything?

Cheers.
 
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Not on my Vista machine, but I think you can prevent Vista from indexing a drive by opening its properties in My Computer and deselecting a box.

There's no way indexing should cause your CPU to hit 78C. It's not that CPU-intensive and will only use one core of your CPU. Are there any other processes using lots of your CPU?
 
Open My Computer
Right Click on the drive and select properties
Untick 'Index this drive for faster searching'
Click Apply / OK

Do this for all drives!



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78C isn't 'quite high', it is insanely high... either it is giving the wrong temp reading or there is something very amiss in your machine.
 
As said, search indexing isn't CPU-intensive, so something else might be causing your issue. Do you use a 3D screensaver or something like that?
 
That's what I said isn't it? :p I always think of 60C as the most you'd want your CPU temp to go. 78C suggests the heatsink isn't seated properly or too much thermal paste has been used, something like that. Or simply that the temp reading is not accurate.
 
they say a pea sized amount should do the trick. a nice equal spread all over, rather then LOTS type of thing.
 
Theguy said:
they say a pea sized amount should do the trick. a nice equal spread all over, rather then LOTS type of thing.
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Pea sized? :eek:

For Arctic Silver, IIRC the recommended amount was a grain of rice (althought it's been a while since I built a machine). You really don't want it thick at all - the idea behind it is that the TIM just fills the small imperfections between the heatsink and the top of the CPU. Bare metal touching (i.e. the IHS and heatsink) is more conductive to heat than the TIM I believe.

EDIT: grain of rice sized *might* be the recommendation for the old AMD processors without the IHS (so a smaller surface area) - like I said, it's been a while :p
 
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I am generally confused by what vista does with hard-drives, when I leave my computer with music paused on itunes and then come back say 5mins later the music kicks in when I press play but then sort of stutters after a few secs and I hear the hard-drives spinning up. It can be really annoying, is there any way to stop this? Is it to do with indexing as well?
 
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I am generally confused by what vista does with hard-drives, when I leave my computer with music paused on itunes and then come back say 5mins later the music kicks in when I press play but then sort of stutters after a few secs and I hear the hard-drives spinning up. It can be really annoying, is there any way to stop this? Is it to do with indexing as well?
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Power Options in control panel. advanced Hard disk Turn off Drive setting to 0 = Never.
 
square_imp said:
Thanks, has been bugging me for ages. :)
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it used to do that all the time with me on my media centre and was really really annoying it would even stop to access the disk when I was watching something.
When I reinstalled my media centre it was still doing it and I was going to send both my hdds back but then for some reason had the idea to change the setting. Its been working perfectly ever since
 
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