search indexer just.. will.. not.. STOP

[Guest Argh!]

It keeps popping up in my process list after I manually end it.

 

Yes, I've disabled it with services.msc and no, it won't STAY disabled.

 

And no, there's no "Windows Search" or similar entry in the Add/Remove list

-- or the Installer Clean Up utility or anywhere else on the HD that I can

find -- in order to uninstall it.

 

I'm sure someone will ask me WHY I would even want it gone, so let me head u

off. First, it's a resource hog -- it sits there, does nothing for me, yet

eats up, on average, 25MB of memory. Second, I never use it. Third, because

of reasons 1 & 2, it annoys me that it refuses to stay down.

 

So, the $64,000 is... how do I get RID of this blasted thing once and for

all, w/o getting rid of (or reinstalling) XP (SP3) in the process?

 

TIA

[Guest Jason Schoppert]

Re: search indexer just.. will.. not.. STOP

 

Hello:

 

Are you referring to the "Windows Desktop Search"? This seems to be a hot

topic ... check out this link, about 1/4 the way down the page is the

uninstall process from the Windows Desktop Search Admin Guide.

 

http://forums.microsoft.com/MSDN/ShowPost.aspx?PostID=301681&SiteID=1

 

Jason Schoppert

 

 

 

 

 

 

"Argh!" <Argh@discussions.microsoft.com> wrote in message

news:9FD4D072-287B-4615-9FAD-27C2D7E8BC7B@microsoft.com...

> It keeps popping up in my process list after I manually end it.

>

> Yes, I've disabled it with services.msc and no, it won't STAY disabled.

>

> And no, there's no "Windows Search" or similar entry in the Add/Remove

> list

> -- or the Installer Clean Up utility or anywhere else on the HD that I can

> find -- in order to uninstall it.

>

> I'm sure someone will ask me WHY I would even want it gone, so let me head

> u

> off. First, it's a resource hog -- it sits there, does nothing for me,

> yet

> eats up, on average, 25MB of memory. Second, I never use it. Third,

> because

> of reasons 1 & 2, it annoys me that it refuses to stay down.

>

> So, the $64,000 is... how do I get RID of this blasted thing once and for

> all, w/o getting rid of (or reinstalling) XP (SP3) in the process?

>

> TIA

[Guest Argh!]

Re: search indexer just.. will.. not.. STOP

 

 

 

"Jason Schoppert" wrote:

> Hello:

>

> Are you referring to the "Windows Desktop Search"? This seems to be a hot

> topic ... check out this link, about 1/4 the way down the page is the

> uninstall process from the Windows Desktop Search Admin Guide.

>

> http://forums.microsoft.com/MSDN/ShowPost.aspx?PostID=301681&SiteID=1

>

> Jason Schoppert

>

>

>

>

>

>

> "Argh!" <Argh@discussions.microsoft.com> wrote in message

> news:9FD4D072-287B-4615-9FAD-27C2D7E8BC7B@microsoft.com...

> > It keeps popping up in my process list after I manually end it.

> >

> > Yes, I've disabled it with services.msc and no, it won't STAY disabled.

> >

> > And no, there's no "Windows Search" or similar entry in the Add/Remove

> > list

> > -- or the Installer Clean Up utility or anywhere else on the HD that I can

> > find -- in order to uninstall it.

> >

> > I'm sure someone will ask me WHY I would even want it gone, so let me head

> > u

> > off. First, it's a resource hog -- it sits there, does nothing for me,

> > yet

> > eats up, on average, 25MB of memory. Second, I never use it. Third,

> > because

> > of reasons 1 & 2, it annoys me that it refuses to stay down.

> >

> > So, the $64,000 is... how do I get RID of this blasted thing once and for

> > all, w/o getting rid of (or reinstalling) XP (SP3) in the process?

> >

> > TIA

>

>

 

I read through that thread, all of it, and the various, specific

recommendations didn't help in my particular situation. Files and registry

entries called for simply were not there, so I couldn't remove or alter them

as instructed.

 

I ended up manually deleting the registry entries with "Windows Desktop

Search", "wds" and "search index" in them. That did the trick. It's gone

now. So far, after multiple reboots and running programs normally, no

adverse affects have been noted.