Comments on: Google Desktop Slows Your Computer Down

By: Espresso Coffee Machines

Espresso Coffee Machines — Mon, 30 Nov 2009 00:25:36 +0000

Interesting article, it’s good to see a lot of people still critical about Google’s software. I’ll know to avoid it!

By: TheNorm

TheNorm — Fri, 16 Oct 2009 12:51:20 +0000

Good article!

Fred, you are a lifesaver, that was excellent advice.

Office Coffee, good idea. How about a pop-up every hour (or whatever) that says “will start indexing in 1 minute unless you click here”?

By: Office Coffee

Office Coffee — Thu, 18 Dec 2008 01:50:15 +0000

Does anyone know of a utility that will allow me to pause indexing for say 8 hours – from when I arrive at work until when I leave?

By: Fred Held

Fred Held — Wed, 15 Oct 2008 00:31:15 +0000

If you right click on the google desk top symbol you can get it to pause for 1 hour at a time. If you are doing a ton of work, just pause google. When you want to search your computer, and google is damn fast, you still have the function.

By: jay

jay — Wed, 28 Nov 2007 03:14:17 +0000

thanks just what i was lookig for. i thought it was hat was slowing i down =] and this is a brand new computer. ut mann i liked the side bar =\

By: Nick

Nick — Tue, 13 Nov 2007 19:39:30 +0000

I’ve also been frustrated with the performance issues using Google Desktop Search. I switched to Copernic, but had to disable the Copernic Firefox Plugin in order to keep up performance at a normal level which is not really necessary after all.

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By: proudgeek

proudgeek — Mon, 10 Sep 2007 14:15:29 +0000

Hi Olguin — You raise an interesting point about being able to disable / enable indexing. I’m pretty sure the last time I used it, a year or two ago, I was able to disable desktop indexing when it slowed down my computer too much. I’ve not used the Copernic Desktop, somewhat out of mistrust (I don’t know Copernic well, so why should I trust it to keep an eye on my data etc), and somewhat because I don’t like installing extensions, toolbars, or desktop monitoring software onto my laptop. Slows down Firefox as well as many other programs.

By: E. Olguin

E. Olguin — Sat, 08 Sep 2007 17:52:31 +0000

What do you think about Copernic Desktop? I’ve been use it for 4 years and I think is not so bad, and when I suspect Copernic is the reason for the PC get slow down, simply I disable it, and from time to time just re-enable it again just for update the index and of course to make faster searches.

In the past I used Google Desktop, but the reason I stop used it was that when deleted archives, the index still have registered the information concernig in the file deleted, even for long time. I Imagine thar over the years Google Desktop has resolved all that issues, but I still installed Copernic.

If Google Desktop has the property of “Disable” and “Enable”, I’d recomend make the above procedure same as I do for Copernic.

Regards

By: V

Mon, 18 Jun 2007 17:31:14 +0000

I would love to learn how to clean up my laptop with all the junk. I’m not tech-savvy like you, but with some simple layman instructions, I’m all savvy!