Monitor Changes & enable USN Journal

[phrab]

I just downloaded Everything & find it amazing! I was using DirNow! for decades, and very happy with it, but it just quit in Windows 10.

Anyhow, I was wondering if it's advisable to uncheck monitor changes & uncheck enabling USN Journal. I primarily use Everything to open folders, so that I don't have to wade through a start menu. I don't make that many changes to my system & if I do, I was wondering if I could just manually update the database? When I used DirNow!, I would just update the database once a week.

I'm not quite sure why I would need either of those options, since it's so quick to create a database.
Thank you in advance!

[void]

The USN Journal is maintained by the NTFS driver.
Unchecking the USN Journal will be futile on Windows Vista or later, it is recreated on boot.


To disable real-time monitoring in Everything:

• In Everything, from the Tools menu, click Options.
• Click the NTFS tab.
• For each NTFS volume:
  • Uncheck Monitor changes.
• Click OK.

To force Everything to reindex:

• In Everything, from the Tools menu, click Options.
• Click the Indexes tab.
• Click Force Rebuild.
• Click OK.

To index only folders:

• In Everything, from the Tools menu, click Options.
• Click the Exclude tab.
• Change Exclude files to: *
• Click OK.

[phrab]

Thank you for your quick reply! I appreciate it!