{"id":149,"date":"2008-07-30T23:13:39","date_gmt":"2008-07-31T06:13:39","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.ianbrown.cc\/blog\/?p=149"},"modified":"2008-07-31T12:26:52","modified_gmt":"2008-07-31T19:26:52","slug":"losing-space-on-your-c-drive-try-uninstalling-windows-desktop-search","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.ianbrown.cc\/blog\/losing-space-on-your-c-drive-try-uninstalling-windows-desktop-search\/","title":{"rendered":"Losing space on your C drive?  Try uninstalling Windows Desktop Search."},"content":{"rendered":"<p>I was losing space on the c drive of my laptop, and found that over 2 gigs was being taken up by Windows Desktop Search, and as far as I know, it keeps accumulating over time, as it keeps indexing.  No other program needs Windows Desktop Search to run, so there are no worries about uninstalling it.<\/p>\n<p>I removed it and got back over 2.7GB of space!<\/p>\n<p>To remove it, do this (in Windows XP):<br \/>\n<!--more--><\/p>\n<p>1.  START>CONTROL PANEL>ADD\/REMOVE PROGRAMS<br \/>\n2.  Make sure you check the box at the top of the window for &#8220;Show Updates&#8221;<br \/>\n3.  Find Windows Desktop Search, click on it, then click the &#8220;Remove&#8221; button (remove the most recent updates to this program first if there is more than one instance of this program listed; I only had one instance listed)<br \/>\n4.  It may bring up a box listing all of the programs that were installed after Windows Desktop Search.  Click Ignore.  No programs are dependent on Windows Desktop Search to run.<br \/>\n5.  It will ask to restart.<br \/>\n6.  Done!<\/p>\n<p>If you do not see it listed in your Add\/Remove Programs list, go here:<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/forums.microsoft.com\/msdn\/showpost.aspx?postid=301681&#038;siteid=1&#038;sb=0&#038;d=1&#038;at=7&#038;ft=11&#038;tf=0&#038;pageid=0\">Uninstalling Windows Desktop Search<\/a><\/p>\n<p><!--adsense--><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>I was losing space on the c drive of my laptop, and found that over 2 gigs was being taken up by Windows Desktop Search, and as far as I know, it keeps accumulating over time, as it keeps indexing. No other program needs Windows Desktop Search to run, so there are no worries about uninstalling it. I removed it and got back over 2.7GB of space! To remove it, do this (in Windows XP):<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[11,7,9],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-149","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-software","category-tips-and-tricks","category-windows-updates"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.ianbrown.cc\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/149","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.ianbrown.cc\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.ianbrown.cc\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.ianbrown.cc\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.ianbrown.cc\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=149"}],"version-history":[{"count":4,"href":"http:\/\/www.ianbrown.cc\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/149\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":153,"href":"http:\/\/www.ianbrown.cc\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/149\/revisions\/153"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.ianbrown.cc\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=149"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.ianbrown.cc\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=149"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.ianbrown.cc\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=149"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}