Hi Mark,

So disable indexing on that drive if you find it annoying. It's a low
priority process though, and I suspect that's not the real issue. If it's
not settling down after a few days, then I suspect something else is
interfering with it.

Vista is vastly different than XP, and if processes for all users were to be
shown each time TM is opened it would also involve an additional UAC prompt
for elevated privileges. In Vista, nothing runs in that mode without the
user's explicit consent. For TM to open with that level by default means
that the permissions used could also be exploited by malware.

--
Best of Luck,

Rick Rogers, aka "Nutcase" - Microsoft MVP
http://mvp.support.microsoft.com/
Windows help - www.rickrogers.org
My thoughts http://rick-mvp.blogspot.com

"CerfurMark" <CerfurMark@discussions.microsoft.com> wrote in message
news:5DE6F7F9-68A1-4802-A440-17E27229C30C@microsoft.com...
> Hello,
> In XP, I could check the "Show all processes" check box and it would
> remember for next time. Why have they made this not work? I've had Vista
> for almost a year and I still hate it. SearchIndexer.exe is always
> running
> and making all this noise on my hard disk and spiking my CPU up and down,
> so
> I'm always looking at TaskManger to set it to low priority or kill it.
> Forcing me to have to press the Show all processes button every time I
> start
> Task Manager and then go through the UAC is just one more irritation on
> top
> of the SearchIndexer irritation.
> Mark
>
> "Rick Rogers" wrote:
>
>> Hi,
>>
>> There is no setting to enable that, you will have to initiate it each
>> time
>> you load Task Manager.
>>
>> I woud concentrate my efforts on isolating whatever software is causing
>> the
>> slowdown issue. Full malware scans in safe mode with up to date antivirus
>> and antispyware programs would be a good first step.
>>
>> --
>> Best of Luck,
>>
>> Rick Rogers, aka "Nutcase" - Microsoft MVP
>> http://mvp.support.microsoft.com/
>> Windows help - www.rickrogers.org
>> My thoughts http://rick-mvp.blogspot.com
>>
>> "CerfurMark" <CerfurMark@discussions.microsoft.com> wrote in message
>> news:1FA8BD72-8572-4348-AA80-29A1B650CA00@microsoft.com...
>> > On Windows Vista Home, I often am starting the task manager to see why
>> > the
>> > system is slow. But every single time I start Task Manager, the Show
>> > processes from all users is a button instead of a checkbox and I have
>> > to
>> > press the button and go through UAC to be able to see all the
>> > processes.
>> > How
>> > do I get Task Manager to remember that I ALWAYS want to see all the
>> > processes
>> > from all the users?
>>
>>