Have you performed a search in the box in the start panel and found it to be rather slow, well so have many others. This is due to a feature in Vista that whenever you perform that search it actually searches through your entire file index, and that is huge!

The best way to speed up this search is to set it that whenever it searches it does not search through the files on your hard drive, to do this just;

  • Right click on the start button
  • Click properties
  • Click on customize
  • Uncheck search communications
  • Set Search Files to Don’t Search for files
  • OK

Faster Search