Hi Nick
I agree to everything what you said.
It's a personal customization which is still evolving and I'm always open for suggestions.
Yeah, haven't thought about it properly. Thought everybody who reads this knows what they're doing, but ... that's not how it is, true.
Only thing I can suggest is, to research and read as much as possible what's available on the net.
It really is a incredibly, huge source.
You need to be prepared to find contradicting information and even a lot of rubbish.
But applying some of common sense and digging through tons of explanations and experiences of other poeple, this way you can filter what you're looking for from the rubbish.
Personally I often need different sources to confirm each other before I develop confidence in it ... especially when it's important.
Having read about what every setting does, more often than not I still don't look through the way I would like to.
There's a great potential to improve transparency for us PC user !
I'd have hundreds of suggestions ... just ask me
Well Nick, regarding the indexing service:
Next to disabling UAC, to switch off the indexing service was the best thing I could ever have done.
I know that there're many people who defend the indexing service like as if it's their life support - but not for me.
I hate how Vista makes the HDD for ever indexing, depending of how many files there're to be indexed.
If you make good use of it - good. But not everyone uses the search as often and for those, switching off the bloody indexing is a blessing.
As I said, it's a ... c u s t o m i z a t i o n.
And for that you will always find people with different opinions about what's important and what's not.
The default settings are supposed to be for the mass, but not a one-for-all-solution.
If you like to have it the way you want it - adjust it.
But you really need to know what you're doing when you change something in your OS.
So, Nick is absolutely right that you shouldn't apply anything where you don't look through.
