Indexing service causes hard drive thrashing.

[techs]

All of a sudden my WinXp started slowing way down after the machine was running for about 5 minutes. The hard drive is continually working. I coulnd't find an obvious process running. After trying everything I could think of, adware, virus, drivers, deleting pagefile.sys, etc, I turned off the Indexing Service in Search and that stopped the problem. If I re-enable it the problem re-occurs. Anyone see this or hear of a solution?
Thanks

[Gabriel]

Hello techs,
I have seen it before on systems that have lots of small files.
Usually when I get to fixing a computer - I disable the Indexing service - for most users it is uneeded. It uses lots of memory and Hogs the CPU and HDD.
Only if you are using some sort of web Engine on the computer (and you need to index lots of files) it is needed.
My point - if you don't use a service (Messanger service, IPSEC, Kerberos, Indexing service and many others...)- disable it.


All well,
Gabriel