Invisible Windows, can't restore the window.

There is a great post on missing windows in Vista, windows not showing up at:
http://sursumcorda.salemsattic.com/archives/2006/08/15/invisible_firefox

My problem was that Mozilla Firefox chose to open and seemed to only display on the taskbar.  When I maximized the window or put it in full screen it showed up.  But when I tried to put it in windowed mode or restore it to my working size it disappeared.  It seemed to be going down below my taskbar.

When I came across the above post I was able to find that the I could try the Move Window function to get it back on my screen.  I right-clicked on the tab in the taskbar and then selected Move.  I then used the arrow keys to get it back on to my display.

Windows Indexing Service Using Too Much Space

     I was investigating some issues on my Windows 2003 server box. It seems to be running slow. I don't know exactly what is causing the issue. But I noticed that the server was continually running low on space. The bulk of it comes from the backups that we run. But we seem to get quite a bit of creeping consumption on the servers main drive. We are losing space continually.


     I came across a some files in the "System Volume Information" folder when I analyzed the hard drive on a defragment run. It showed I had a file of about 12GB that was in the C:\System Volume Information\catalog.wci folder. I investigated this further to find that my entire drive was being indexed by the Windows Indexing Agent.


     Inside of the Computer Manager, I opened the Services and Applications then Indexing Service and found that the whole drive was marked for indexing. On the server we don't need to find files so why would this be indexed. So I removed the C drive and then told the system to clear out the files that were already indexed. It deleted the 12GB .ci file, along with several other files.


     I am still looking into why my server is running so slow. If you have any comments on why it is going slow please let me know.