Microsoft windows search filter host is burning my cpu usage.

Hi I have the same problem!

None of the above methods worked for me! If I look in the indexing options, I see that the number of files indexed stays the same for hours, but if I kill the search filter host process it continues again for a  ´little while, but halts again eventually. I think it hangs up on the files it is indexing. I have already tried removing xml from the indexed file types and also excluded most file extensions except for the most important ones.

I hope someone can find a solution for this quickly because running the cpu at 50% constantly brings down laptop battery life dramatically and I cannot just deactivate indexing as it is needed for skydrive under windows 8.1

Edit:

Hello,

I think that the integration of SkyDrive into Windows 8.1 is a really great thing. However, in my case the Indexing service chocked on some file types that were stored on my computer. This is really bad because it blocked the indexing service and burned the CPU of my laptop at a constant 30%, bringing down battery life dramatically, and I needed to move many of my files out of SkyDrive into a non-indexed folder to solve the issue.

I hope the problems get fixed soon so that I can use SkyDrive to store all my data

I had the same problem and Isolve this disabling the index service for user folders and for xml filter.

reboot and the magic append!

I hope to be enough clear!

Ms omule si la mine a mers ....