Excessive Hard Disk activity with Outlook 2007 Beta

[Alan Guggenheim]

I have the Beta installed (including the search engine), and my system is
extremely slow. The hard disk is running all the time (I installed a utility,
and it shows SearchIndexer.exe total I/O over 24 hours of more than 30GB! I
read that Microsoft was postponing the relase because of performance issues,
but they just mention CPU and Memory useage, not HD. I was hoping it would
improve over time, after the first indexing is done, but
1- I unchecked most of my folders
2- It has been indexing for over two weeks, so it should be done
3- The indexing folders are much bigger than previous versions (currently
5.3GB)
4- The HD I/O activity should stop when I use my system, they don't
Any Idea what I can do to improve the situation ?

 

[Patrick Schmid]

1- I unchecked most of my folders
Folders in Outlook? Windows folders should not be indexed by WDS 3

2- It has been indexing for over two weeks, so it should be done

Who knows?

3- The indexing folders are much bigger than previous versions (currently
5.3GB)

How big are your Outlook PSTs and OneNote files?

4- The HD I/O activity should stop when I use my system, they don't

WDS3 is beta as well. So it doesn't do always what it should.

Any Idea what I can do to improve the situation ?

Defragment your hard drive. If it annoys you too much, remove WDS3 and
live without Instant Search.

Patrick Schmid

 

[Alan Guggenheim]

Folders in Outlook? Windows folders should not be indexed by WDS 3

Why not? If I go to the Indexing Options, it asks which folder I want to
index.

Who knows?

Indexing Options shows indexsing completed...

How big are your Outlook PSTs and OneNote files?

Outlook is about 3GB, OneNote is very small (less than 100K)

WDS3 is beta as well. So it doesn't do always what it should.

Defragment your hard drive. If it annoys you too much, remove WDS3 and
live without Instant Search.

Done defrag, but it did not help much. Stopping WDS3 seems to help much more.

 

[Tittelba]

I'm having the same problem. Indexing is definetly done but I still get read
activity to my HD from searchindexer.exe every 1 to 2 seconds (for weeks).
This was happening without WDS installed.....just the seach function of
Office 2007 beta. I've tried turning it off in controll panel but all option
are greyed out. I installed WDS3 hopping that might correct the problem. It
didn't but it also didn't hurt either....the i/o activity is the same.

Does anyone know how to stop searchindexer.exe?

Thanks,
Tom

 

[eliezerb]

I had the same issues, and finaly had to remove WDS from my computer.

 

[Heidi H]

How did you get rid of it?? I've been looking but haven't been able to find
how.