How do you disable SearchApp.exe from running so that you can enable SLI in the Nvidia Control Panel?

@rooobinBergström Thank you for this idea. I was a bit skeptical of the claims that its website made for Everything, but Everything was a great success.

I installed the Lite version, since I had no need for the features it omits. It installed surprisingly quickly (the executable file is only about 1.5 MB). My next surprise was that it actually only took about 2-3 seconds to index my entire disk (92 GB  in use). My final surprise was how fast it loads as an app, and how complete its listings appear to be, and how easy it is to search for a file even by partial name. I am very impressed with this free program, and it certainly fills the need for a file and folder searching program very well. Since it does not attempt to speed up searches for file content, only file names and folder names, it runs very fast indeed, unlike Microsoft's always slow-as-molasses Explorer search feature.

Thank you for suggesting this wonderful workaround. It gets five stars from me, and I pledge to post more here should I ever find a problem with it (but I rarely need to do this kind of searching).

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One minor problem is that it always shows all files or folders whose names contain the search string anywhere in the name, and by default includes all the unneeded Windows system files. There does not seem to be a way to search for "Main" and just see the folder Main. A workaround is to turn on regular expression matching and search for "^Main$". This returns only names identical to Main. You can exclude Windows folders and files using options in Menu > Tools > Options > Exclude.

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There is a results column labeled Size that is always empty. This is because it is normally disabled for speed. Use Menu > Tools > Options > Indexes to choose what attributes to include in the search index and you can also choose which attribute columns to display.

I used KillDesktopShells.cmd successfully to configure Nvidia Surround. Cortana was disabled in Group Policy Editor prior to running the cmds.

Still have to terminate Edge on it’s App page, etc, etc, yada, yada, yada.

@JamesZhang4 I, too, sometimes miss the file searching and other valuable functions that Microsoft has strangely and recently combined into one executable file in this way. I think the best solution must come from Microsoft themselves, if they can ever pull themselves away from working on the latest technological toys innovations.

Cortana doesn't even work properly on computers running in some languages other than English. Cortana needs a way to be completely disabled when the user wants to (such as when it makes the CPU run very hot).

I don't know about Microsoft, but I always test the hell out of my programming, and offer the user lots of customizing preferences. Microsoft seems to just throw clever stuff over the wall and then ignore even those bugs that generate many years and many pages of annoyed threads on popular forums. I would love to be proved wrong about this perception.

You have to rename it. You can easily find it if you go to "Information" under activity manger. Then right click and "Find path". Then rename it. If you have trouble follow my guide above. 

Be careful though. I had to restore it because when you rename it in 2004 version of W10 I could no longer search for files.