Windows.edb file just keeps growing -- is there no limit?

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C:\ProgramData\Microsoft\Search\Data\Applications\Windows\Windows.edb is the main search index file. After a fresh reindex of around 750,000 entries it is less than 1GB. Over the next few days it grows to 2GB, 4GB, 5GB, now 8GB. When I first noticed

the problem it was 48GB and still growing! Each time it grows, it cripples the computer for some minutes with 100% saturated disk activity.

 

System is a new i7, new Windows 8, lots of memory, disk, SSD etc.

 

This was supposed to be fixed in

 

http://social.technet.microsoft.com/Forums/en-US/b9d897be-7cee-48bf-b06f-27bca627d3ee/bug-windowsedb-exploding

 

Windows 8 and Windows Server 2012 update rollup: May 2013

http://support.microsoft.com/kb/2836988/en-us

 

This update package also fixes the issues that are documented in the following articles in the Microsoft Knowledge Base:

 

 

 

2838018 The Windows.ebd file grows very large in Windows 8 or Windows Server 2012

 

I have that update and I still have the problem.

 

This looks like a Windows bug, gents. Any suggestions?

 

 

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