If your Windows 11 laptop runs hot, fans spin up frequently, or battery life feels worse than it should, the built‑in Windows Search Indexer — also known as searchindexer.exe or the Windows Search (WSearch) service — is one of the single background features that can meaningfully affect power...
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In Windows 10 Home Pro, I went to Settings > Search > Searching Windows and added all the folders I wanted excluded from search under Excluded Folders. I did a search and it is including the folders I excluded.
Why is this happening?
Thank you.
