Comments on: Disable and Turn Off Windows Vista Search Indexer and Indexing Service

By: Alex Mitchell

Alex Mitchell — Wed, 07 Jan 2009 13:35:55 +0000

Done & done, thank you for the quick run down!

By: mike

mike — Fri, 26 Dec 2008 17:32:00 +0000

“Indexing Options Remove or Exclude Indexed Locations in Control Panel”

I’m running Vista Home Premium & I can’t find this area. Was something left out of the instructions.Mike

By: rainy

rainy — Thu, 04 Dec 2008 19:36:08 +0000

hi,
thanks for your explanation. but for my vista, the Disabling Windows Search Service (1st option) can not be reached from Control Panel, or i couldn’t find it from your explanation. Instead, the menu you showed can be reached from Start>Programs>Administrative Tools>Services. I just want to remind it.

Thanks.

By: Sak

Sak — Fri, 03 Oct 2008 02:23:35 +0000

I’m on WinXP SP2 but having the same issues with this and two other files.
searchfilterhost.exe
searchprotocolhost.exe
searchindexer.exe

I checked Add/Remove and noticed Windows Search was installed. It probably came thru one of the updates. I had Task Manager (Processes) opened during uninstall. After it finished, the 3 files were gone. I haven’t seen it pop up in Processes so far and it’s been several days now. Hopefully that’s the last that I see of this issue.

Good Luck!

By: freestylegreek

freestylegreek — Thu, 31 Jul 2008 05:20:59 +0000

Hey there Urby well i did what you said and i think the constant ticking is gone. I think it only makes noise if im using the computer constantly.

I’m not like one of those people who know everything about computers. So i’m hoping what i did really did the job cause im thinking it did but in the back of my mind im not sure.

Thanks.

By: freestylegreek

freestylegreek — Sun, 27 Jul 2008 17:27:07 +0000

Hello Urby thanks for the message as i never really did check this site out until i got a message in email that someone replied back to me.

The thing that is posted above doesnt that stop the ticking and noise from the hard drive? If your way is better and actually stops the noise and ticking then why is it posted then?

Your way seems more easier and faster then what this site has posted.

Let me know as im confused since i did what its posted on the site and it still makes noise every so often and about it being bad for the hard drive that is the last thing i want for my hard drive to happen.

Thank you.

By: Urby

Urby — Sun, 27 Jul 2008 03:09:56 +0000

the reason its still ticking in there is because u need to disable superfetch in services and DEP/NoExecute in the command prompt… both of these little bits suck tons of memory (superfetch especially: consider all except 32 MB of system memory for 4GB of physical memory in the computer)and it keeps the drive spinning even when idle… all these in combination slow the computer system and suck vital system resources.

That annoying spinning and ticking in your computer is sure to be bad for the hard drive, and it slows down games… so far my system has seen an improvement in game FPS on the highest settings (esp Crysis) and windows starts 30 – 40 seconds faster than before.

Specs

-Intel Core 2 Quad Q9450 2.66GHz FSB 1333MHz L2 Cache 12MB 64 Bit 45 nm
-2 x EVGA GeForce 8800GT Superclocked 512MB
-4 x 2GB Patriot DDR3 1333 Memory
-Creative Sound Blaster X-Fi Titanium Fatality Professional
-ATI TV Pro Tuner Card
-2 x 750 GB Seagate Barracuda HDD 32 MB Cache 7200 RPM 3.0Gb/s SATA
-EVGA 790i Tri-SLI Motherboard

By: freestylegreek

freestylegreek — Sun, 18 May 2008 00:15:31 +0000

So I tried this and it doesnt work as the hard drive still is seeking. I let others try it and it still is seeking.

I guess only way to get rid of the search index is basically doing a clean install really.

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Need to sort this... - Page 6 - Clunk's Forums. — Mon, 25 Feb 2008 22:53:27 +0000

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