If your Windows 11 laptop’s battery life feels shorter than it should, the usual advice—dim the screen, close background apps, choose a power‑efficient mode—helps, but it may not be the whole story; one often‑overlooked background system, the Windows Search Indexer, can silently chew CPU, disk...
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exclude folders
file explorer search
indexing options
outlook search
pause indexing
performance tuning
power settings
powercfg batteryreport
rebuild index
search indexing
search service
searching windows
task manager
third party search tools
windows 11
windows search indexer
windows.db
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