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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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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windows 7 hangs during startup
Hi guys
I have a Lenovo thinkpad laptop, with windows 7 professional 64 bit.
Recently my laptop just started hanging in startup. After switched my computer in safe mode, I had a look in the event viewer.
I found this error occurring multiple time within 5...
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wsearch
My Windows 7-64-bit machine is reporting an event 3036 warning each time the WSearch service is started. Although benign, I would like to be able to fix this issue. I have searched the internet for a solution and have come up empty handed Here are the details:
Event type: Application...