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

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I'm unable to shut down SearchApp.exe in task manager so that I can enable SLI in the Nvidia control panel. I've performed a clean boot and stopped the Windows Search service.

However as soon as I end task on SearchApp.exe, it automatically restarts. Because of this I'm unable to enable SLI in the Nvidia control panel.

SearchApp.exe is located in C:\Windows\SystemApps\Microsoft.Windows.Search_cw5n1h2txyewy

I'm unable to enable SLI if I boot into safe mode. I already tried that.

When I had a version of Windows 10 pre version 2004, I had no problems ending task on everything running that prevented SLI from begin enabled. I did a clean install of Windows 10 last night to fix a problem and now that the problem is fixed, I have a new one. I really hope I don't have to install an older version of Windows 10 and upgrade to get around this problem.

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The previous answer is unlikely to work because Cortana keeps searchapp.exe running all the time (causing cpus to get hot).

The following commands worked for me. You have to paste them into in Administrator-level Command Prompt again and again until the timing is right and the "move" works.

cd %windir%\SystemApps

taskkill /f /im SearchApp.exe

move Microsoft.Windows.Search_cw5n1h2txyewy Microsoft.Windows.Search_cw5n1h2txyewy.old

Optional: to remove Cortana completely (in addition to stopping searchapp.exe), run the following command in Administrator-level Powershell:

Get-AppxPackage -allusers Microsoft.549981C3F5F10 | Remove-AppxPackage

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Springtime Software

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Anonymous

2021-03-18T17:06:29+00:00

""ChristopherLB1234567890

Created on August 21, 2020

How do you disable SearchApp.exe from running so that you can enable SLI in the Nvidia Control Panel? I'm unable to shut down SearchApp.exe in task manager so that I can enable SLI in the Nvidia control panel. I've performed a clean boot and stopped the Windows Search service. ""

Its disable search application restarting

And its done there --

https://imgur.com/qXifiDi
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Anonymous

2021-03-18T18:52:50+00:00

To save everybody from wasting their time, this link points to information about the Windows antivirus settings page, which is off-topic.
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Anonymous

2021-03-18T19:41:30+00:00

the OP question is how to stop search application from restarting / which happens even if he disable search from services/ I had same problem, and disabling windows defender Automatic sample submission function solve it for me. But if you say, its a waste of time, who am i to argue. Nice day everyone.
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Anonymous

2021-03-18T19:44:46+00:00

Wow, David, thanks! I noticed SearchApp always taking a ton of bandwidth ... when I wasn't doing any searching for anything. The official Microsoft answer was worthless.

I tried your answer, which instantaneously removed the problem.

The trick for me was to do the taskkill until all instances of SearchApp are gone (waiting for the error) then have ctrl-v ready for the move command.

As a seems-like-magic bonus, my fans have stopped working overtime, which has plagued this computer since day one! Apparently microsoft calling SearchApp constantly was overheating the network card or something? Sweet jeebus.
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