Search Indexer - Off or On?

Alexey2912 · Jan 24, 2022

Devlin1888 said:
Screenshot of the usage? Just so i know if its similar to what mines was or not before i turned it off. But if its absolutely minimal i wouldn't bothe

Dch48 said:
I turned it off. I also use Everything but sometimes will just type my request in after hitting start. The first thing I do after installing Windows is get rid of the search box in the taskbar and make sure Cortana is disabled. I don't like voice interfaces and never use any of them. I'm also not a fan of touch screens but that's another issue.

Disable in services.
Uncheck on drives.

Is that enough?

Thanks.

glasskuter · Jan 24, 2022

@Devlin1888 Mine is on and never cause a problem. The little green flag to the left of it states this when I hover over it "The UWP process is suspended to improve system performance. That flag goes away while I am searching for a file. I guess that means it suspends itself when not in use. It looks like this.

ShamrockRig · Jan 24, 2022

Alexey2912 said:
Disable in services.
Uncheck on drives.

Is that enough?

Thanks.

Should be. FYI every windows update...it will turn back on so you gotta keep doing it.
I left it on for win11 but noticed issues that's the only reason i really changed it, wasn't suspending or anything. Mainly noticed it due to the fans cranking up whilst sitting at idle doing nothing and that was the culprit so I got rid. Doesnt cause me any drama and I dont have the issue. Thats not to say the issue might have been fixed since I had it but ima just rock this way now again

Alexey2912 · Jan 24, 2022

glasskuter said:
@Devlin1888 Mine is on and never cause a problem. The little green flag to the left of it states this when I hover over it "The UWP process is suspended to improve system performance. That flag goes away while I am searching for a file. I guess that means it suspends itself when not in use. It looks like this.
View attachment 19703

Mine memory usage is 33%.

ShamrockRig · Jan 25, 2022

Alexey2912 said:
Mine memory usage is 33%.

Overall? Or just the search protocol? How much ram is that using specifically

DigitalGoat · Jan 25, 2022

I leave it on, but I also go into the indexer options and turn off types of indexing and types of files and locations I won't need/ don't use. Currently my index database is about 33Mb in size and takes maybe 6 seconds to complete over 4 SSDs. Unless you need all the information about every file in every location then you can reduce the search indexer's overhead and impact by customising it.
There is also, or used to be on Win10 at least, a MS Store app (free) called Indexer Diagnostics that allowed you to see the impact of various indexer settings and set options.

jbcarreon123 · Jan 25, 2022

I leave it on, but, I disabled Indexing of USB drives.

Windows Search Indexer taking 1 1/2 GB to 2 GB of RAM

Hi, Did you experience this?

www.elevenforum.com

Unsupported CPU + SSD

Fabler2 · Jan 25, 2022

I leave it on the classic setting and it's not indexing much at all. Windows Update not affecting it.

Alexey2912 · Jan 25, 2022

Devlin1888 said:
Overall? Or just the search protocol? How much ram is that using specifically

Overall.

ShamrockRig · Jan 25, 2022

Alexey2912 said:
Overall.

5.28gb of ram overall? Yeah thats fine man

Roban · Jan 25, 2022

For SSD disable.

ShamrockRig · Jan 25, 2022

glasskuter said:
@Devlin1888 Mine is on and never cause a problem. The little green flag to the left of it states this when I hover over it "The UWP process is suspended to improve system performance. That flag goes away while I am searching for a file. I guess that means it suspends itself when not in use. It looks like this.
View attachment 19703

Oh BTW the search that you have here isn't what was causing the issue for me, it was the search protocol process that came with it. The green flag and all that was there at the time, but it was search protocol that was using resources.

Dch48 · Jan 25, 2022

Alexey2912 said:
Mine memory usage is 33%.

That seems like a lot. I have the same amount of RAM and my usage right now is at 19%

Alexey2912 · Jan 25, 2022

Devlin1888 said:
5.28gb of ram overall? Yeah thats fine man

4.4 GB overall.

Thanks.

Alexey2912 · Jan 25, 2022

Roban said:
For SSD disable.

Disable what?

Thanks.

Alexey2912 · Jan 25, 2022

Dch48 said:
That seems like a lot. I have the same amount of RAM and my usage right now is at 19%

28%, memory usage 4.2 GB of 16, is that a lot?

Thanks.

ShamrockRig · Jan 25, 2022

Alexey2912 said:
4.4 GB overall.

Thanks.

Yeah I wouldn't have an issue with that personally. In task manager not always but my issue was 'search protocol' not the 'search' one. Albeit search protocol comes with it. That's what was causing me high usage. I'm well over what you're ram usage is idle I can use anything up to 6 6 and half albeit I have keyboard software. Mouse software. Steering wheel software etc so ima say that's why but those are optionals so irrelevant in this case

Roban · Jan 25, 2022

Alexey2912 said:
Disable what?

Thanks.

Indexing.

unifex · Jan 27, 2022

That's how it looks with the Search service disabled. I have no idea why it got renamed from Search to Screen Snipping though.

Edit: on the second attempt, I got this

So apparently, the Snipping Tool is somehow entangled with Search, for no reason that I can understand.

DigitalGoat · Jan 27, 2022

unifex said:
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That's how it looks with the Search service disabled. I have no idea why it got renamed from Search to Screen Snipping though.

Edit: on the second attempt, I got this

View attachment 19964

So apparently, the Snipping Tool is somehow entangled with Search, for no reason that I can understand.

Possibly because a new image would be created and would therefore need indexing....?