Search services eating up CPU

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Lately, right after I boot, the cpu is very busy, enough to delay typing into an Office document. It finally settles down, but not completely, always using 4 to 10% of my cpu. There are 3 search services running in Process Explorer I never noticed before (maybe they were always there and I never saw them).

1. Is this the result of a new update? I’ve never noticed it until today. I went to services and disabled Windows search, they all closed and I got my cpu back. I know indexing is now disabled, but I recently started using Everything Search.

2. Is there anything that won’t work properly now? (Outlook complained, saying searches would be slow, but I don’t care about that)

3. Anyone else seen this problem?

Thanks,
Rusty

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Depends on how much searching the service has to do on your computer.
I’ve limited my indexing service to just the primary drive. With 6 TB worth of stuff spread over 5 hard drives, I already
know the exact locations of most everything.
Actually there might be alot in terms of services that need not be running. Windows 7 default does a much better
job than XP ever did at managing them, but there are still uneeded services I don’t have use for.
Go to BV’s site for information on services. I like to keep mine somewhere under 40.

I don’t notice a whole lot of difference with search being curtailed, or off, but then again I have little use for it.

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After it settles down a few minutes after boot, I usually have about 46 to 48 services running. I’ve only got a 320Gb drive indexed, so I may not even need it. I think I’ll just leave the indexing service off for now.

Thanks for the link to Blackviper, that looks like a helpful site.

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