Comments on: Google Desktop: buggy stuff

By: kwc

kwc — Tue, 03 Jan 2006 13:27:00 +0000

Gosh–I was Google Desktop Search’s biggest fan until I downloaded and installed the October 2005 verion–when they took it off “beta.”

Now it pegs my CPU at 100% constantly. I have to go into Windows Task Manager and stop the GoogleDesktopIndex.exe process to regain control of my computer.

Wrote Google tech support about this. And, like tack said, they told me to uninstall and reinstall. Told me to download the latest, latest version and uninstall and reinstall. I did. All to no avail. Unlike tack, I didn’t save a copy of the January 2005 version that ran so well for me. So I’m still wrestling with this.

At first, back in October, I was convinced I had a virus or some spyware on my machine. But ran every possible scan and I’m clean. And it’s obviously GoogleDesktopIndex.exe causing the problem–I can watch it happening in taskmanager.

I completely came to depend upon Google Desktop Search and don’t want to give it up. But I somehow need it to control itself, to manage its use of resources like its says it does. (It says it only indexes when the computer is idle. Bullshit.)

Wondering if dr. tack might be so kind as to email me a copy of the exe file for the older version he is using? If you read this, tack, you can mail me at drkwc@wellnessU.org. I haven’t been able to find an older version online. (Have googled for it for hours, of course).

Thanks,
kwc

By: Peter

Peter — Fri, 16 Dec 2005 00:19:00 +0000

Honesty obliges me to say: once everything is indexed and you haven’t uninstalled it in the meantime, is proves to way better for searching your disks than Windows or your mails than Outlook.
If you have 3000-4000 mails in your Inbox, Outlook (as a stand-alone client, not with Exchange) is plain unworkable. Google Desktop is very fast.

By: Anonymous

Anonymous — Sat, 26 Nov 2005 12:38:00 +0000

I’ve had the same problem too – IBM T40, 100% CPU maxed out, slows everything to a crawl. Uninstalled Desktop and it was fine – waited two weeks and reinstalled latest version – same scenario. Uninstalled, fine. It worked fine for the first couple of months.

By: Tack

Tack — Sat, 08 Oct 2005 12:01:00 +0000

And another one here
Initailly I thought it was ok, but after installing fire fox was not indexing the fire fox pages – so re-installed it. Been using all my cycles ever since. the only mention is on googles help site that they know of this problem and are investigation (!) and suggest – uninstall, restart, re-install – well doesn’t work for me. Have the old version on my system so will try that instaed. SHeesh! buggy!

By: jdavid.net

jdavid.net — Tue, 04 Oct 2005 10:16:00 +0000

i have the same problem, as a shortcut solution, i set the priority on googledesktopindex.exe to low, it really helps, but my apps still start slower, and the priority resets everytime i restart the computer.

By: Keith

Keith — Thu, 22 Sep 2005 02:05:00 +0000

SAme thing here – P4 2.8 GHz with 80 and 250 GB drives and googledesktopindex.exe has the cpu at 50% all day long.

By: Ken

Ken — Sat, 10 Sep 2005 13:21:00 +0000

I uninstalled the google desktop, and then explorer would not launch!! Even from the task manager I could not get explorer to launch… so no icons as the guy before said! After multiple restarts, I shut totally down, and now my machine won’t even power up!! Its a brand new P4 3.0 with a gig of ram! My experience with the google beta was similar, same problems with using too much cpu, so that’s why I uninstalled it. Now my machine is hosed thanks to Google!

By: Jonathan Fry

Jonathan Fry — Wed, 07 Sep 2005 06:47:00 +0000

I’ve had the new Google Desktop 2 Beta installed for a week now and it’s consuming silly amounts of CPU, up to 90% meaning my machine is running at 100% CPU usage all the time. I had the old version installed before with no problems.

I have tried I don’t know how many times to get the Adsense plugin working and it won’t connect.

I know it’s Beta software but it’s not supposed to resemble Alpha!

By: Giordano

Giordano — Mon, 05 Sep 2005 15:26:00 +0000

Dont touch the new google desktop until they iron out the bugs. eg all yout icons may vanish…