What is SearchApp.exe , is it a virus ??

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For some time I feel like my computer is running slow even though it has 8gb of ram. Then I checked my resource monitor and saw SearchApp.exe at using 44 threads and my CPU usage was already at 52%. Please help me out !!

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I have 128GB RAM and suddenly I am out or RAM, and it is the SearchApp that took 122GB or RAM. Hey, MSFT, fix that bug!

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This SearchApp.exe is literally making my other apps crash because of the amount of resources it is using... How about what ever the heck you all did to this... roll it back...

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Anonymous

2022-02-21T10:48:11+00:00

I had a similar issue with SearchApp.exe taking all my RAM - it definitely had a memory leak.

Fixed it by uninstalling kb5010415.
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Anonymous

2022-02-23T14:06:13+00:00

My Webroot showed that there may be a security issue with SearchApp.exe. When I checked in Task Mgr., I have no flux but do have Search. My search still has a green leaf with means UWP app stopped or suspends this search until needed to keep it from taking over too much power. I think Microsoft should look into why the UWP isn't working for search in the systems using up far too much power.

I also get the same security issue with IE.exe which I NEVER use.
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