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MSN Desktop Search indexing and Virii

Learn how to optimize your PC's performance and safeguard against malware with these simple tips and projects for organizing digital images efficiently.

Learn how to optimize your PC's performance and safeguard against malware with these simple tips and projects for organizing digital images efficiently.

Yesterday afternoon I was trying to search for something on my PC, I couldn't find it. I checked my settings in the MSN Desktop Search and realized it was only indexing Outlook and my My Documents folder. Well, I rarely keep anything in the My Documents folder, so I setup the search to reindex my machine.

15 hours later it finally finished indexing. It indexed close to 500k items on my machine.

During that process I figured out there were some virii on my machine as well. So I had Norton do a full system scan last night and it came up with 9 files on my old harddrive which is hooked up as an E drive.

Now I guess I should run a disk defrag and try to clean up the drives a little. I think I'm going to write an application to help me archive my many thousands of images. I have probably 100 gigs of photos taken with my cameras, so I need to figure out a way to archive them on DVDs and have a thumbnailing application on the PC so I can tell what images are on what DVDs. That could be a fun little project to start on this weekend.

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