> maybe a spotlight-like search As I recall, XP had a background indexing process, to facilitate system wide search. I distinctly recall having to turn it off

> maybe a spotlight-like search As I recall, XP had a background indexing process, to facilitate system wide search. I distinctly recall having to turn it off as I had builds fail more than once because the indexer had a derivative file open that the build was trying to delete. Locking open files has been a Windows pet peeve of mine for decades.