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Posted by Justin on April 17, 2006, 4:58 pm
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I agree with tigerhawkvok. I am always running folding@home and one weekend I
came back home and found that i had over 750,000 Items left to scan as WDS
does not index on its own. I hope that future versions will be smarter about
when to index or even include a scheduler that can do a scan at a user
scheduled time.
"tigerhawkvok" wrote:
> Hello;
> I think very highly of the MSN Toolbar, but I have two suggestions. First,
> I propose that the on-battery indexing be made an option. Some people would
> use it, some wouldn't, and its a fairly significant drain on your battery
> life of a laptop. Second, I use the SETI@home and Einstein@Home programs
> (and there are other various ones like this around)...however, since these
> programs use idle CPU power, the MSN Toolbar ALWAYS reads the computer as
> busy, so I have to manually index from time to time. I think that it would
> be wise of Microsoft to put those as exceptions to the idling-check that the
> Toolbar does. Other programs such as these include GIMPS (Great Internet
> Merssien (sp?) Prime Search) and climateprediction.net. Those of us that
> provide our computing power to the scientific community should not have to
> manually index or do without!
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