I don’t know about you, but I use and abuse my computer until it can barely perform, and then I still refuse to reboot the thing. Because of this, after the computer has been on for about a month or so, you begin to notice all the processes that take up resources and try to optimize the resources to cut down on memory leaks. I mean, if it isn’t for the memory leak, the computer can stay on for years instead of months. The one thing that always bothered me was SearchIndexer.exe and why it always consumed so much RAM. This morning, I check and it is taking 400k of memory.
Why?
I’m glad you asked. The reason being is that SearchIndexer is Windows Desktop Search utility that is supposed to perform better than Google Desktop. Due to my huge email size and amount of emails I receive, it takes up a lot of resources to index it and perform faster searches.
Lets think about that for a second. The Windows Desktop Search is supposed to make my searches and windows experience better, by making my computer run slower? This just cannot be the Microsoft way. Once I realized what this utility does and how it is not appropriate for my usage (I may use the search utility 1 or 2 times a year, if I’m lucky) I decided to give it the axe.
Here are the directions on how to remove the Windows Desktop Search
Go to add/remove utilities
Remove Windows Desktop Search
The end…simple right? Oh Microsoft and their silly ways. To be fair, I hate google desktop too. I don’t know why people can’t just remember where they put their documents or emails… 
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