The windowssearch.exe process is also known as the Windows Search System Tray and is owned by the Microsoft Corporation. This process refers to the indexed searches on Windows Vista and future versions of Windows collectively, as well as Windows Desktop Search that is included as freeware. It is the successor of the Indexing Service which came from the Object File System (a project that never materialized). It builds a full-text index files on the user’s computer. The process can take up a lot of hours depending on the amount of data to be indexed. The Windows Search can look for results in a short amount of time compared to searching for the files on the user’s computer. File names are used for the searches as well as the contents of the file, keywords, comments and other forms of metadata in which the Windows Search recognizes. It is an essential component of the computer system. It is an executable file and provides convenience for the users.

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

A process usually a part of an installed application such as Windows Search System Tray, 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 windowssearch.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 windowssearch.exe, belongs to, in this case Windows Search System Tray