How to tame the Search Filter Host?

This thing is killing me.
Ive brought the Index down to work only on specified files but the host is using between 30-50% of my cpu.

How to resolve this without shutting off the Indexer completely?

 

Have you installed any third-party IFilters?

Look in Control Panel > Programs > Programs & Features and see if anything is labeled as an IFilter. If so, it might be the culprit.

Also check Control Panel > Sys & Maint > Indexing Options > Advanced > "File Types" tab. Scroll through the list of filters and see if any look like they're probably third-party filters. You might consider changing a few file types that you use to "Index Properties Only" instead of also indexing the file contents.

Also... what are your files like? I mean, besides your OS and apps... for your data files, media files, etc... what kinds of files do you have a lot of?

 

You could try leave your computer on overnight, and during idle time, it should hopefully finish indexing your files.

Also, are you sure it's the indexing process that is taking up your cpu?

 

Oh yeah you can also try downloading and installing Windows Search 4 if you haven't already. It will need to start indexing from scratch though.

 

I shut the whole thing down; couldnt take it anymore. Its preventing me from getting work done. It was using more than 50% of my 4gigs!
I checked my computer; no IFilters.
As for the file types, there are so many of them_i dont know that I can distinguish between whats what.

Now that ive shut the whole thing down, im only using 5% of my CPU.

I really would only want it to Index "My Documents" and Outlook and nothing else. Is there a way to rebuild it from scratch to only have it index those areas?

Or, maybe I could download and use Google Desktop just for my personal files and Windows search just for Outlook?