Ever notice Vista thrashing the hard drive like there's no tomorrow for no apparent reason? Ever notice how Vista will do this forever and without end? Every try to get work done but Vista is too busy thrashing the hard drive and sucking up precious resources causing the system to slow down so much that you can't get anything done?
YUP! Me too!!!
One of the main things that drives me NUTS about Vista is how it likes to engage the Search Service or Index Service scan process when I'm in the middle of doing work.
I don't know who at Microsoft thought it would be a good idea to have these running while people are using there systems, but this guy needs to have his pants yanked to his ankles, be dragged out to the parking lot by his nuts and stomped to death. (I used to be such a nice guy before I met Vista)
To turn off these extremely annoying processes, just follow the instructions on this page:
Someone might say: On no! Don't turn those off or you can't find anything on your system!
That someone is probably not aware of Google Desktop. The wise people at Google had the bright idea to have their search tool perform its indexing while your system is idle and not being used. The Google Desktop is also far better, faster and produces better search results than the POS MS Search tool in Vista.