Managing Windows Indexing Service with Visual Basic.NET using WMI - How to work with/manage Indexing Service
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Those who are familiar with "Indexing Service" can skip this section. How do you start/stop an "indexing service"? Just go to Administrative Tools -> Services. Within the list of services, find "Indexing Service" and right click on it.
You have several options within that menu. You can start/stop or even go to the properties. Within the properties you can modify the "start mode" to "automatic" (meaning that it is automatically started when the OS starts) or "manual" or even "disabled." Once "disabled", the service could never be started unless you change the mode back to "automatic" or "manual."
Your next questions would probably be something like "Where are all the catalogs?", "How much indexing has it completed?", "Is it still indexing?" etc. Just a simple window will answer all of those questions.
Go to Administrative Tools -> Computer Management. In the left pane, open "Services and Applications" and select "Indexing Service" (Fig 2). You will see a list of all existing catalogs at the right side pane along with their indexing status and other criteria. Everything can be operated with "right click," which includes "adding new catalogs," "deleting catalogs," "starting or stopping indexing operations," and so on. Just try to play with all of those options (don't worry, nothing harms your computer!)
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