Indexing services is a small program that hogs HUGE amounts of RAM and can often make a computer endlessly loud and noisy. This system process indexing and updates lists of the files on your system, so you can search for them quickly, but it's completley unnessesary.
To disable it, go to the Control Panel and click Add/Remove Programs. Click the Add/Remove Window Components. Simply unclick the Indexing services and click next!
Indexing service creates a database index of all files on your system when the system is otherwise idle. Unless you do frequent searches, it is suggested you disable this service. (Allan, Forum Admin)
Regarding adding and removing windows components, I get an error message which states something like "cannot open file as msgs.inf is missing error code 0x2 on line 288999664"
I tried running %system%\inf but got an error saying Not found (or something to that effect)
Any Ideas how to work around this? I've disabled indexing on my main system and my girlfriends netbook which has worked wonders, now I'd like to improve my own laptops performance but can't at the moment.