Hello.

I'm working on a Windows Ultimate installation mainly for playing games. The first test I'm running is to see if Vista will run into any serious problems without Windows Search & Volume Shadow Copy and the accociated programs.

The only things I removed for this test was (using vLite 1.1 beta):

-All the languages

-Volume Shadow Copy

-Windows Search

-System Restore

-Windows Backup

Everything seems fine but I managed to crash/make a blue screen by going into harddisk properties and unchecking the option to index a particular drive. It seemed to first change the attributes on all the files successfuly and the crash when the system presumable tried to issue some instructions to Windows search.

It seems to make sense but I thought I'd ask anyway if there could be any cause for concern. Looking for any kind of input

A registry hack to remove the indexing option from drive properties would be great if this crash is a natural and unavoidable consequence of killing windows search.

Lenny

Edited November 5, 200718 yr by Lenny

Hm no, never heard of that problem before.

Try disabling antivirus protection or set it to scan on execute only.

I'll try what you said in virtual machine but I doubt that it will happen, could be your hardware or drivers somehow.