If there is one utterly unnecessary service that you should disable on Windows, it’s definitely the Indexing Service built into Windows XP. The idea behind it is that you can search for files more quickly if it is enabled - there is an alternative for this which is Google Desktop but you don't need this indexing service if you know where everything is.
The indexing service seems to eat up a lot of CPU on every machine I’ve used, especially when you have the amount of files that I’ve got.
If you are sure you want to disable it then follow these three simple steps:
1. Navigate to the Services console via Administrative Tools.
2. Double-click on the Indexing Service and change the startup type to disabled.
3. Hit the stop button if it is started, which is likely, and then hit OK.
Simple.
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