Provides content indexing and property caching for file, email and other content (via extensibility APIs). The service responds to file and email notifications to index modified content. If the service is stopped or disabled, the Explorer will not be able to display virtual folder views of items, and search in the Explorer will fall back to item-by-item slow search.
I have always had the Indexing Service as well as Windows Search disabled on all of my systems. Searching for a file does not take "that" long to justify always having this service taking up resources. If, however, you do many file searches, you could benefit from keeping this default service on Automatic. You decide.
None at this time.
Default Vista Home Basic: Automatic (Started)
Default Vista Home Premium: Automatic (Started)
Default Vista Business: Automatic (Started)
Default Vista Ultimate: Automatic (Started)
Safe Setting: Disabled *
Service Name (registry): Wsearch
Display Name: Windows Search
C:\Windows\system32\SearchIndexer.exe /Embedding
Account: Local System account
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