Sunday, May 20, 2007

How do I turn off Windows indexing?

How do I turn off Windows indexing?

To disable Indexing Service, follow these steps:

  1. Open My Computer.
  2. Right-click the Drive icon (perhaps you call it "Local Disk") and select Properties.
  3. Remove the checkmark from "Allow Indexing Service to index this disk for fast file searching."
  4. Click Apply.
  5. Make certain to select "Apply changes to :, subfolders and files."
  6. Click OK in the new window.

Also:

  1. Click on Start
  2. Click on Search
  3. Click on "With Indexing Service"
  4. (If that is not there, click on "Change Preferences", then "With Indexing Service")
  5. Select "No, do not enable Indexing Service"

Windows Search V/S Desktop Search

Actually, Windows 2000 and Windows XP have two ways to search files: a slow way and a fast way.

The slow way is to go into start»Search. It will take several minutes, if not longer, to find the files you are looking for. And, of course, it will not show you extracts like Minalyzer Desktop Search will.

Windows XP also supports the notion of indexing. If you can figure out how to use it, you might be able to perform fast searches.

The problem is that Windows XP is not very friendly with indexing. Windows XP starts indexing at unexpected intervals, and the process of indexing slows your computer to a crawl.

In fact, many Windows experts recommend that you turn off Windows XP indexing. See the Blog for instructions on how to do this.

In contrast, Minalyzer Desktop Search's indexing is friendlier and uses only the processing power available that you are not using.

And, Minalyzer Desktop Search is a lot easier to use.

Saturday, May 19, 2007

Need of Log Analysis

Most web servers are providing the log files to the webmasters to track activity of their web sites. These log files saves everything related to website like
  • requested page URL
  • request date time
  • User IP
  • requested server IP
  • referral URL(from where the page was requested)
  • byte served or received details
  • user agent type and
  • so many other useful client server related information.

These all details are combined into a single line for every request and all requests are combined in single file. And every single file contains whole day activity.

But when we discuss about website, then every website runs on world wide so its log files contains too much data. This data is too much for human beings to understand but machines can process this data easily and log/data analysis programs can analyze this data easily and gives you meaning full results.

Minalyzer is one of the products in log analysis market which is specially developed for the webmaster or other administrative person. It helps in efficient web site administration and economic search engine optimization. We can also see some useful use cases of Minalyzer which represents its capability and representation style.

1. Visitor activity for tracking visitor activity.
2. Visitor analysis for spam tracking and junk traffic analysis.
3. Add campaign Analysis.
4. Error Analysis for Broken link analysis, client server performance analysis and so on.

Minalyzer also allows the user to create own reports as per their requirements and export reports in most popular formats for further processing or personal use.