So you're wondering why the heck is my hard drive light constantly flashing when you aren't doing anything. The answer is simple.

Indexing Options is on by default and I did write a tutorial about how to turn the service off but I looked back why I wanted to turn the service off in the first place. Simple, it was destroying my hard drive by making it work 99% of the time. To cut the story short let's leave it on but lets optimize this feature and actually index the folders we would want to search.

1. Click on Windows Icon from the taskbar aka the start menu (bottom left corner by default)
2. Click on Control Panel
3. Double click Indexing Options
4. Click on Modify button
5. Select the drive(s), folders you want and it gives you the option to index your Microsoft Outlook

This was a quick tutorial but feel free to experiment the settings and see what works for you!

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ID10T Paul (159.87.47.xxx) 2009-09-03 06:53:15 Thanks, Windows Search was eating up all the space on my C Drive. Is there anyway to limit the file size? Reply 0   0

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