Go to Start > Run and type: SERVICES.MSC , and hit enter.
Scroll down to the "Indexing Service", right-click on it and select
Properties > Startup type and select Disabled.

4 Ways to Speed Up Your Computer's Performance
http://www.microsoft.com/atwork/getstarted/speed.mspx

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Microsoft MVP
Windows - Shell/User
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"lost2ny" wrote:

| The performance on my Dell Latitute laptop has degraded to the point of
| absurdity. Programs take extremely long times to load or switch, and my
| drive light flickers constantly. I've uninstalled all unneccissary
| programs. I've gone in to MSConfig and disabled all unneccissary
| startup programs and services. I've run complete system scans with
| Norton Antivirus, Ad-Aware and Spybot (Spybot found a few things the
| first run through, but it's clean now). I've used Norton System Works
| and Abexo to clean and repair any defects in my registry. I've
| defragmented my drive and my registry.
|
| The most puzzling thing, to me is that although my task manager
| indicates that Idle Processes CPU usage is hovering around 90%, yet my
| total CPU usage is hovering at around 50%! Shouldn't the total CPU
| usage be roughly 100 minus the Idle Proccesses CPU?
|
| This is really driving me crazy, but I'm loath to reinstall Windows -
| there should be some way to trace the problem.