I'm very curious.

When you say "8 minutes to index the characters folder" I have no certainty of what you mean. In computer parlance, "indexing" means to build an index, a data compendium allowing things to be located quickly without scanning and reading everything where the sought item might be.

Now it occurs to me that Poser 8 does indeed ask the OS to do indexing, and that indexing involves the Windows Indexing service, and that this service could continue to run after Poser exits while it asssembles an index for the entire Poser 7 runtime, which it did not attempt to do until you added it to Poser 8.

But I'm not sure how you'd know that "indexing" is happening.

The way you're using the word "indexing", I think you simply mean "loading", as in you're talking about how long it seems for the GUI to show you things from your runtime. Is that what you mean, the display of content from the runtime? Because that isn't indexing. That's simple reading. And it shouldn't be happening after you quit Poser.

I need to see the running processes, very badly. I do not know what is happening, but it is clear that adding the P7 runtime caused something to happen.

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