How to Disable Windows Search in Windows 7 with Simple Way

On the previous article about How to Rebuild Search Index, now here is the article about How to Disable Windows Search in Windows 7. Windows Search feature is very useful to search files or something that stored in the hard drive and it also used in other applications like Windows Media Center and Internet Explorer.

Start - Before disabling Windows Search feature

How to Rebuild Search Index in Windows 7 and Windows 8

The index closely related to the search feature in Windows Exlporer. With indexed locations, we can search any files or folders in those locations faster than non-indexed locations (read the previous article about "Windows 7 Search Index"). But sometimes in indexed location, the index cannot find files or folders that we looking for, although we are sure the files exist in that location. Over the time, the locations we have used have a lot of changes, such as copying and moving some files in it. So the index would change. In this case, we have to manually rebuild the index to get more accurate results (or we can call it to update the index).

Indexing Options

How to Use Windows 7 Search Index to Speed Up The Search

Search feature in Windows 7 is very helpful to search some files that stored on PC's hard drive. However, when we want to search some files using search feature, it can takes much time to find it. To save search time, we can use Search Index feature. Windows 7 Search Index will index the files and stores information about the files including date modified and the file name, and also properties about the files. In some locations that are not indexed, the Windows 7 system will search a file name or file property through PC's hard drive and it will take much time to find it. The indexed location can makes searching feature faster.

Non-indexed locations

How to Clean Registry in Windows 7 with CCleaner

In Microsoft Windows operating system, registry is a database system that used to store data and information about system, hardware, and software configuration. If PC is always used for many things like browse the internet, install or uninstall PC software, and store some data, these things is very closely related with operating system's registry. Time by time, there will be garbage registry that not useful. If these registries are not cleaned, it will decrease PC's performance. Therefore, clean registry is very important and one of the many maintenance process that can speed up PC's performance.

Registry Editor in Windows 7

How to Run Disk Cleanup on Windows 7 Operating System

Windows 7 Disk Cleanup is a utility software to cleanup hard drive from all logs,  files on recycle bin, and others garbage data that stored on PC's hard drive. Logs and garbage data like web history, cookies, and temporary files are acquired when user have been using PC to browse the internet. These file are useless and can decrease free space on hard drive. Doing Disk Cleanup on Windows 7 is very simple to do and also this maintenance process can make PC works faster than before.

Disk Cleanup

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How to Defrag on Windows 7 Operating System With Easy Way

Do you ever feel your Windows 7 PC or laptop works slower when it running some applications or programs? Your PC with Windows 7 operating system needs periodic maintenance. One of the many maintenance is Defragmentation. What is Defragmentation? Defragmentation is a process that fixes data on PC's hard drives. This thing is very important to do because it can makes your PC's performance much better and makes your hard drive life longer.

Parts of hard drive
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