Yes, I can attest to exactly the sort of performance hits Marc Orchant talked about a while back. The search indexer would tie up a bunch of RAM even when there was nothing new to index, occasionally my laptop would simply stop responding for a good couple of minutes. It would start, and show the desktop but nothing would open, not even the task manager. Then, suddenly, it would all open like nothing happened. As much as I wanted to check out the advanced search capabilities of Outlook and OneNote than came with WDS, I just couldn't tolerate this mess any longer. It's gone.

I turned off the nagging about it in Outlook by going to the Tools/Options/Other/Advanced Options and unchecking the box for Show prompts to download Windows Desktop Search.

Lucky for me, I found the registry hack to turn off the nagging about having it installed when I open OneNote in the comments on this post by Chris Pratley:

Set these regkeys:

HKEY_CURRENT_USER\Software\Microsoft\Office\12.0\OneNote\Options\Other\EnableWDSIndexing = 0 HKEY_CURRENT_USER\Software\Microsoft\Office\12.0\OneNote\Options\Other\ShowWDSUpdateWarning = 0

Seems to be working for me.

tags: WindowsDesktopSearch, OneNote+2007, Outlook2007

The interesting thing about this post from Chris is that he has steered clear of Outlook 2002 and 2003 because they were too slow, but he sees a speed increase in 2007. I haven't seen the same thing. Of course, I'm using it on a laptop, so my performance may not be your performance.

tags: Outlook2007, ChrisPirillo