SearchIndexer.exe Removal
According to Microsoft, Windows Search and the associated SearchIndexer.exe program is an indexing service technology that provides content indexing and caching for files, e-mail and other content.
SearchIndexer exe CPU
If you are performing intense activities on your windows computer, like video editing, you may oftentimes notice high CPU utiliztion from a program called SearchIndexer.exe which can slow down or interfere with your present activity. What Microsoft professionals would like you to believe is that once Vista's search indexer gets your computer indexed it very seldom has to run and should consume virtually no performance from the computer. But there are many reports that searchindexer.exe is constantly turning on and accessing the hard disk for extened intervals while taking only short breaks in between before starting again. Since the Microsoft Windows Search program is not open source, we can only speculate as to what the SearchIndexer.exe service is really doing. If you find that Search Indexer is getting in the way of accomplishing certain tasks and other computer networking activites, you can disable the service from the computer management console.
Disable Search Indexer
Here are the steps to Disable Search Indexer:
Click Start
Click Conrol Panel
Click System and Maintenance
Click Administrative Tools
Double click Services
Scroll down to Windows Search and Right Click Windows Search
Right Click Windows Search again
Select DISABLE to disable SearchIndexer.exe
The Windows Search Indexer service is now stopped and disabled.
You can also access all the options and functions of the Search Indexer service by double clicking on Windows Search in the Services control panel.
Windows Firewall
SearchIndexer.exe might not be considered a virus because it is a Microsoft Windows program. But large corporations often attempt to gather personal information about users and their computers and these attacks do not differ a great deal from what spyware endeavors to accomplish. Because SearchIndexer.exe attempts to access the Internet, one solution to stop SearchIndexer.exe would be with a good windows firewall. It's very possible that SearchIndexer.exe is one of the many programs that Microsoft uses on its operating systems to hijack a user's computer and transmit data elsewhere.