SearchIndexer.exe Microsoft Windows Search Indexer is a Windows service that indexes your files. SearchIndexer.exe is located in the folder C:\Windows\System32. Known file sizes on Windows 10 are 439,810 bytes (42%) of all occurrences.
The application is not visible to users. This is a file that is signed by Microsoft. This is not a Windows system process. Therefore the technical security rating is 13% dangerous. Whenever a user has any files or program in the search, this file indexes and displays the result. This file is also responsible for the process named “Windows Desktop”
Important: Some malware camouflage themselves as SearchIndexer.exe, particularly if they are located in the C:\Windows or C:\Windows\system32 folder. Thus check the SearchIndexer.exe process on your pc whether it is a pest.
Cybercriminals develop programs that have the same name SearchIndexer.exe but actually, there is malware and viruses. But they are easily detected because the location is not in the System32 folder.
But it is impossible to find the location of the virus because of the same name. For this reason please use special powerful scanners.
How to proceed in order to permanently disable the Windows Search Indexer
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.
There are some most common problem with the process:
– Can’t find SearchIndexer.exe
– Not found SearchIndexer.exe
– The file is missing SeachIndexer.exe
In Winx64 system it can known as SearchIndexer.exe Microsoft Windows Search Indexer (32-bit).
Other problems you can meet:
- Provides content indexing, property caching, and search results for files, e-mail, and other content.
- Failed to save Crawl Scope Manager changes:
- Flag for events used for performance measurements
- Search service high-level status change events, startup, shutdown and setup
- Gathering manager, transaction queues, crawler, pusher
- Microsoft-Windows-Search-ProtocolHandlers
- Failed to initialize Search Root:
- Events reported per each item indexed
SearchIndexer.exe Microsoft Windows Search Indexer (32 بت)
SearchIndexer.exe Microsoft Windows Search Indexer (32 ビット)
SearchIndexer.exe Microsoft Windows Search Indexer (32 bitų)
SearchIndexer.exe Microsoft Windows Search Indexer (32 бита)
SearchIndexer.exe Microsoft Windows Search Indexer (32bitové)
SearchIndexer.exe Microsoft Windows Search Indexer (32-bitine)
SearchIndexer.exe Microsoft Windows Search Indexer (32 סיביות)
SearchIndexer.exe Microsoft Windows Search Indexer (32-bitno)
SearchIndexer.exe Microsoft Windows Search Indexer (32 bitu)
SearchIndexer.exe Microsoft Windows Search Indexer (32 de biți)
SearchIndexer.exe Microsoft Windows Search Indexer (32 บิต)
SearchIndexer.exe Microsoft Windows Search Indexer (32-bitov)