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10.5: Disable Spotlight completely
Authored by: kikjou on Fri, Nov 16 2007 at 11:41PM PST
Or, for the technologically less inclined, simply drop your entire hard drive onto the Privacy area in the Spotlight System Preferences. This immediately halts indexing. You don't get rid of the magnifying glass in the menu bar though.

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