How to disable the Instant Search in Outlook 2007?

[Ziegfelt]

I found the Instant Search is real a rubbish in Outlook2007.
It takes 50M memory in my computer also only 512M memory in my laptop.
I can't bear the slow response of OS caused by the useless Instant Search.

I hope MS could improve the memory usage of Office 2007 also with Instant
Search.

Not everyone using 2G memory!!!

 

[BillR [MVP]]

Give it time to build the first index. After that it should cause very
little impact.
Look in Tools | Options | Preferences - Search Options. If you disable
indexing for all data files it should essentially be off.

 

[Justzinho]

My situation is excatly the oposite. I cant search a thing......
In Tools | Options | Preferences - Search Options the two data files I have
are unmarked and I cant mark them.....
I'm using XPHome.
Detailed: it worked on the first days, I noticed that it wasn't working
reacently.

 

[Melbro]

Try the obvious; Tools, Options, Other, Advanced Options, uncheck the box for
show prompt for instant search. It worked for me.

 

[BillR [MVP]]

A similar issue was fixed for me by uninstalling WDS 3 and then
reinstalling. I rebuilt the index afterwards.