The file googledesktopindex.exe, known as Google Desktop, belongs to software Google Desktop from Google. Google Desktop is a program that is designed to make it easy for users to search their own PCs for files, photos, emails, Web pages, music, and a lot more. It makes the computer searchable and offers users with full text search over viewed Web pages, computer files, emails, and chats. Users are allowed easy access to information without having to manually organize and search files, bookmarks and emails. Google Desktop stores or caches the contents of Web pages viewed with Internet Explorer, giving users the opportunity to look at these pages later, even when offline. Google Desktop features a sidebar to one side of the desktop that holds several pre-installed gadgets that include Email, Scratch Pad, Photos, News, Weather, Google Talk and Web Clips. The News gadget shows the latest headline from Google News, while Weather specifies the current situation in the location that is specified by the user.

Most non-system processes that are running can be stopped because they are not involved in running your operating system. googledesktopindex.exe. is used by Google Desktop, If you shut down googledesktopindex.exe, it will likely start again at a later time either after you restart your computer or after an application start. To stop googledesktopindex.exe, permanently you need to uninstall the application that runs this process which in this case is Google Desktop, from your system.

After uninstalling applications it is a good idea to scan you Windows registry for any left over traces of applications. Registry Reviver by ReviverSoft is a great tool for doing this.

The ReviverSoft experts have not yet reviewed googledesktopindex.exe

A process usually a part of an installed application such as Google Desktop, or your operating system that is responsible for running in functions of that application. Some application require that they have processes running all the time so they can do things such as check for updates or notify you when you get an instant message. Some poorly written applications have many processes that run that may not be required and take up valuable processing power within your computer.

We have not received any complaint about this process having higher than normal impact on PC performance. If you have had bad experiences with it please let us know in a comment below and we will investigate it further.

The first thing you should do if googledesktopindex.exe. is causing errors on your computer is to run a Windows registry scan with Registry Reviver If you are still seeing errors after this you should uninstall the program that googledesktopindex.exe, belongs to, in this case Google Desktop