Starting the Indexing Service to Speed Up File Searches

You can greatly speed up searching for files, particularly files with text in them, if you index your files.

To turn this on:

1. Start a search by pressing the F3 key from the Explorer on while on the desktop
2. Click on Search Options
3. Click on Indexing Service
4. Check Yes, enable Indexing Service

Searches should now go extremely fast. The index file is relatively small.
For example I have about 3 gigs of used hard drive space and this created a 20 meg index file.