I have windows 2008 R2 - i need to disable windows indexing. i could not find the proccess in the services.msc it means the process is dead and windows is not indexing ? i've read somewhere indexing is default shut off on windows 2008 R2. is this true ? thanks!

AFAIK, Windows Indexing service is not enabled by default on Windows Server 2008 R2. If you want to enable it, refer to this Microsoft article. This posting is provided "AS IS" with no warranties or guarantees , and confers no rights. Microsoft Student Partner Microsoft Certified Professional Microsoft Certified Systems Administrator: Security Microsoft Certified Systems Engineer: Security Microsoft Certified Technology Specialist: Windows Server 2008 Active Directory, Configuration Microsoft Certified Technology Specialist: Windows Server 2008 Network Infrastructure, Configuration

Well apparently some of it is not disabled in windows 7 uhm... 2008r2 I'm trying to move my default My documents location to a network location share ( I like to have some of those system folders shared by all my workstations and those use a common mountpoint > z:/My documents ), and windows complains > This network location can't be included because it is not indexed .... Indexing service is missing ( disabled as per default ) and I don't want it enabled, neither do I want to make use of "handy" features like libraries. ( there are some files in there that rely on last access date to do operations, if windows start touching them because whatever kind of service feels like it, then it gets all screwed up ) Quote (in windows help and support) : What types of locations are supported in libraries > On a network > Yes, as long as the network is indexed or has been made available offline In my book that means I either have to turn indexing on that 53TB ... or make 53TB available offline ... as you can understand neither solution is feasable. I don't want a bunch of computer generating traffic, indexing the same fileservers ( FYI > The fileservers are redundant (HA) configured linux servers that index the contents themselves > they do that in roughly 5-6minutes from a blank index , contents can be queried by a custom interface. ) Previous versions of windows enabled one to just move that location to ones liking. So the question remains ... how does one turn of those services ? Thanks