I usually just go through the folder trees to find what I want. I'm pretty meticulous when saving/naming things... but yeah I probably should read up on it.

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I usually just go through the folder trees to find what I want. I'm pretty meticulous when saving/naming things... but yeah I probably should read up on it.

Me too for recent stuff. But I have stuff going back many years thats why I have so many HDs.

Also indexing in Vista/Win 7 can look into files such as txt and doc files to find a phrase that one may know but not know what file its in.

Its like a database of your files. Most people are unaware of its power. They may think its like it was in XP.

Oh... they fixed it so it can peek into the actual content of documents now? Yeah that's useful. Windows Explorer used to really suck which is why I just started being super organized in the first place so I wouldn't have to use it.

Oh... they fixed it so it can peek into the actual content of documents now? Yeah that's useful.

Or not. 


If you have a few tens of thousands of files and you are looking for a phrase that is in only one--excellent. In indexed locations the search is very fast. If your search word is in a few thousand files, you will get them all. Then you will need to use search filters to narrow it down. If you are looking for a file that you know is named the.txt, and you just type in "the" in the search box and do not preface your search with the filter "name: the", you will find everything in the index with the word "the" or therapy, or theory, etc. in it. The first time you do a search and get four thousand hits, you may wish the default was to search by name. Then you can start to memorize the advanced query syntax.

From the control panel go to Power Management and for whichever plan you’re using go to "change plan settings" and then to "change advanced power settings". Expand the Hard disk option and see what the “Turn off hard disk after” is set to. There is a Never option in there. I'm pretty sure that will fix it - it fixed mine.

Yeah I thought I had already done that but maybe it only changed the C drive. That drive seems to be fine.

Its like a database of your files. Most people are unaware of its power. They may think its like it was in XP.

Yeah, like me...so John, did you go in and uncheck all of the extensions you never use (most of which I've never even heard of)?

No Randy because I often supply the extension when I search. You are right, there do seem to be a bunch of extensions that have no meaning to me but they do to various programs, I hope.  Some of them seem to have no meaning to anything. But I'll bet if I were to delete one the whole world will come and end!

But I'll bet if I were to delete one the whole world will come and end! 


Well hopefully mine won't because I unchecked more than 90% of them...I mean what extensions are 1 ...or up to 5 letters long?
That said I only have just over 10,000 results found on 4 HDs...my concern was having to store 4 HDs worth of data on a 160GB SSD C drive.
Fortunately the folder is only 1.79 GB and my search results are almost immediate.
Thanks John!...hopefully I won't have to send Big Louie after you if my whole world comes to an end