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Tim Meddick typed:
You won't even admit that it *is* bad practice to stuff 1000s of
files into the root of the system drive, will you?

I don't see why I should continue defending my advice to someone who
is seemingly intent on trashing anything I have to say.

If there is something I said that is factually incorrect or harmful
to anyone, I will have no hesitation in entertaining any criticisms
levelled against me.

Umm, no point, unexplained, unverifiable information doesn't count as
factually incorrect?
While I pretty much respect your posts, this one seems to just make work
for, and raise more questions while answering nothing for the OP.


Regards,

Twayne`




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Cheers, Tim Meddick, Peckham, London. :-)




"Leonard Grey" wrote in message
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What "processes" and "disk operations" are you referring to, and how
are they related to Windows Search?

I'm still waiting to hear what method of organization Windows Search
finds "logical and easy to understand" and how you arrived at that
conclusion. ---
Leonard Grey
Errare humanum est

Tim Meddick wrote:
So you don't imagine that bad practices such as having 1000's of
files in the root dir, negatively affects processes involving disk
operations? ==

Cheers, Tim Meddick, Peckham, London. :-)




"Leonard Grey" wrote in message
...
You think that Windows Search will have an easier time if you
"re-arrange files and folders into a more logical and easy to
understand structure"? What method of organization do you suspect
Windows Search finds
"more logical and easy to understand"...and how did you arrive at
that conclusion? ---
Leonard Grey
Errare humanum est

Tim Meddick wrote:
I support what "thanatoid" advises in his response, however,
there are some things you can do to curb XP from getting "tied
up" in operations involving searches.

Attempt to - deleting, where possible, any older, redundant and
outdated files. Perform a defragmentation on all hard-drives - and
repeat
regularly. And another thing that may well have a bearing on your
issue -
could have been caused by the resident portion of either an
anti-virus or anti-malware program. Next time you do a search, while
it is in progress, open Task
Manager and see what other programs start to eat up memory as the
search progresses. If, as in the case of Windows Defender on my
system, you see
another program getting carried away with itself, then this could
well account for a "freeze" or lock-up if you try to abort the
procedure. If this is what is happening on your system, you should
temporarily deactivate these programs for the time it takes to
complete any search operations... ==

Cheers, Tim Meddick, Peckham, London. :-)




"OREALLY" wrote in message
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Whenever I STOP a search while it is searching the computer
freezes up and I have to go to task manager to end the search.
Any reason or repair for this? Thanks,

Oreally



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