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Does newsbin use or need Windows Indexing at all ?

If not then i may as well disable it on my download box as it seem pretty pointless with it constantly indexing the data - download folder and it's not like I've ever had a need to search the download box for anything so i wondered if i could save on some resources.

Nope. I disable that shit on every windows box I run.

I disable it as well.

I was fed up with the HD constantly chunnering away. I'm 99% certain it broke a HD that was only 2 years old - I was lucky in that while checking the makers website to see if there was a way of recovering the data, I input the serial number and found the HD had a 3 year warranty and I got it replaced for free.

Stopping indexing , system restore and the hyberfil.sys has given me back over 7gb of space.

Yeah, that's how I run it too.

Yeah, and what's even more insidious about it is that if you genuinely have a need for indexing, say for a million or two files, the index itself gets so big that a search of it is actually slower than searching your storage directly, assuming that your storage isn't badly fragmented. There's really no excuse for how useless Windows indexing is.