indexing on computer startup is slowing computer

[kumar]

Everytime my computer starts and I logon to it, Everything consumes high disk use, I'm guessing because it is rebuilding index. How can I defer this activity to say 10 minutes after logon?

[void]

Please try launching Everything with the -load-delay command line option:

• First step is to disable Everything from starting on system startup normally:
• In Everything, from the Tools menu, click Options.
• Click the General tab on the left.
• Uncheck Start Everything on system startup..
• Click OK.
• Now we need to create a new method for starting Everything on system startup:
• In Windows Explorer, navigate to:
  shell:startup
• Right click in this folder and under the New submenu, click Shortcut.
• Type in:
  C:\Program Files\Everything\Everything.exe
  where C:\Program Files\Everything is the location of your Everything.exe
• Click Next.
• Type in a name for this shortcut, eg: Everything
• Click Finish.
• Right click this new shortcut and click Properties.
• Change the Target from:
  "C:\Program Files\Everything\Everything.exe"
  to:
  "C:\Program Files\Everything\Everything.exe" -startup -load-delay 600000
  where 600000 is the number of milliseconds to wait before loading or creating the Everything database.
• Click OK.

Everything should only index once, please make sure Everything is able to save its database to disk:

• In Everything, from the Tools menu, click Options.
• Click the General tab on the left.
• Check Store settings and data in %APPDATA%\Everything.
• Click OK.

[NotNull]

"C:\Program Files\Everything\Everything.exe" -load-delay 600000

And if you want Everything to start in the background, add -startup to that command:

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"C:\Program Files\Everything\Everything.exe"  -startup   -load-delay 600000