Microsoft windows search filter host is burning my cpu usage.

Anonymous
2012-11-05T09:44:11+00:00

Original Title: Microsoft windows search filter host

Microsoft windows search filter host is burning my cpu usage.

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Windows for home | Previous Windows versions | Performance and system failures

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Anonymous
2015-04-13T14:46:53+00:00

Had the same problem and DiaconuDaniel's solution worked for me as well - took a while to recreate the index but then everything was fine - Thanks

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  1. Anonymous
    2014-08-14T11:54:00+00:00

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  2. Anonymous
    2014-07-23T15:50:29+00:00

    I had the same problem and the advice on this page didn't help that much. troubleshooter was obviously incapable of finding a "problem" after literally hours of high cpu usage on my laptop.

    Try this:

    go to control panel... choose to view as small icons... then select indexing options

    or search for indexing options

    open it

    advanced

    choose rebuild from the troubleshooting section (DOH)

    it would seem that an error in the index is causing this high cpu usage. I'm no expert but this solved the problem for me. windows search momentarily doesn't work... but the index is rebuilding so it will be ok.

    it has nothing to do with indexing locations... I added the entire drive in the index and cpu usage dropped immediately after choosing to rebuild to 5%-10%.

    there is a way of uninstalling windows search from programs in control panel. it's just a windows "feature". but I would advise against this as I have already tried that... and the windows 8.1 menu seems a little sluggish after this (also the OS in general).

    Bingo! Thanks.. Forcing Rebuild helpd

    Even with it doing a rebuild it resource usage dropped.  It was again running in the background like a low priority service.  Thanks

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  3. Anonymous
    2014-05-19T11:55:21+00:00

    I am running an Acer aspire 5742 with a ss hd on windows 8.1 update. Since I changed the power setting to high power and with the recent updates the problem has gone. I ran pc wizard 2013 in compatibility mode and found that one stick of ram is not working. It also gave me more information on my hardware

    If I keep getting hassles from 8.1 I'll go back to windows 7.

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  4. Anonymous
    2014-04-26T05:53:46+00:00

    Hello. It's been over a week now. And things are going great. My computer has remained fast. I have not had to Kill "Microsoft search filter host". I installed Everything Search to replace Microsoft search. I have tried it out 3 times. It's a lot faster than the search box at the top of every window. CPU usage now stays between 15 - 40 % all the time. There was a lot to disabling this, but it was well worth the time. I want to thank Everyone who tried to help me out. Things are working good now. I'll keep my fingers crossed. If I have any further problems, Well I know where to come. Again Thanks to Everyone.

     Muchofreeo

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