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

Anonymous
2021-12-30T08:12:59+00:00

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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Anonymous
2022-02-19T06:26:42+00:00

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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Anonymous
2022-02-19T17:16:16+00:00

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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  1. Anonymous
    2022-05-11T00:18:58+00:00

    If you go to searchapp.exe is it a virus - Search (bing.com)

    it says its a browser hijacker.

    But isn't it a system file? maybe the one that takes up lots of ram is a duplicate and a virus.

    But tbh I don't know why it would take up that much hardware.

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  2. Anonymous
    2022-03-30T04:28:59+00:00

    Hello Dave,

    I see that you explained how to fix the problem, but could you explain it in more detail for people who are not as experienced with fixing computer issues? I don't really know what an Indexing utility is - although I would guess based on what you said that it has to do with searching through files. But I definitely don't know how to open the "Indexing utility in Windows" that you refer to. Basically, can you explain this solution step by step please?

    Additionally, but not necessary, could you tell us a little bit about what this process is? I suspended it using the task manager. Does this mean that other things won't work - perhaps things to do with the file explorer?

    Also, why is it taking up so much memory? I wasn't searching for files or anything. I was using my computer the same way I normally do. But this wasn't an issue before. And I don't know if this is useful information, but this computer is brand new. I just got it in December. I don't have a whole lot of files saved yet. I have some games installed, but otherwise, the computer is pretty clean of clutter since it's basically brand new.

    It's in the Control Panel. Open the Control Panel, then open Indexing Options (if you don't see it, type "index" in the search box.) Click the Advanced button. On the first tab (Index Settings) click the Rebuild button under Troubleshooting. This may fix the problem, at least for a while.

    Why does it take so much memory? It's probably a bug in Windows. All we can do is report it and hope that Microsoft can find and fix the problem.

    I ran into this resource exhaustion error tonight, searchapp.exe was using over 128GB of virtual memory on my system. Definitely looks like a bug in Windows. I REALLY hope microsoft can fix this one soon!

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  3. Anonymous
    2022-03-18T17:30:32+00:00

    i JUST HAD THIS ISSUE FOR THE FIRST TIME THE FILE WAS INSTALLED FEB19 2022 AND NOW MY BROWSERS AND APPS ARE CRASHING. I ENDED TASK AND IT SEEMS TO BE A TEMP FIX WHAT IS THIS

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