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I'd like to know how to proceed in order to permanently disable the Windows Search Indexer in my otherwise fantastic Windows7 OS?
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All you should need to do is click the Start button, type Services in the search field, and click the Enter key. Scroll down and right-click on Windows Search and choose Properties. Change the Startup type to Disabled which will stop it from running when you reboot your machine. You can also click the Stop button to stop the service immediately.
Barbara
Its really not that difficult to fix. Go to Services.msc. Right-click windows search and go to properties. In the recovery tab uncheck the box "Enable actions for stops with errors" and make sure all failure options say "Take no action." Stop the service and disable it. Open Msconfig and in the services tab uncheck the box next to Windows Search. Click ok and restart your computer. Should solve any issues stated above.
That’s still just preventing the service from running and hiding the evidence of it being blocked from working. I don't see how that prevents Explorer from trying to use the indexing service. A proper solution (if one would exist) would be some sort of Explorer setting to have it not use the indexer such as a registry entry like "UseIndexer"=dword:00000000 which would then cause Explorer to not use the indexing service at all… even if it is not disabled.
Its really not that difficult to fix. Go to Services.msc. Right-click windows search and go to properties. In the recovery tab uncheck the box "Enable actions for stops with errors" and make sure all failure options say "Take no action." Stop the service and disable it. Open Msconfig and in the services tab uncheck the box next to Windows Search. Click ok and restart your computer. Should solve any issues stated above.
I did not open a folder but playing a game when it start to get sluggish, I checked the Task Manager and the Indexer was running even though I had shut the service off. And yes I did check it is off at the service level.
Yes, unfortunately it will indeed hurt performance. Even if the service is not running, Windows will start the service for different reasons, so just stopping it isn’t enough; the only way to stop it is to disable it.
I did not open a folder but playing a game when it start to get sluggish, I checked the Task Manager and the Indexer was running even though I had shut the service off. And yes I did check it is off at the service level.
Log Name: Application
Source: Microsoft-Windows-Search
Date: 12/18/2013 6:43:46 AM
Event ID: 1003
Task Category: Search service
