SearchIndexer.exe
Microsoft Windows Search Indexer by Microsoft
| Version: | 7.00.7600.16385 (win7_rtm.090713-1255) |
| MD5: | e0b340996a41c9a75dfa3b99bba9c500 |
| SHA1: | 949c8e32491890cd916f39d787db246362cfe0ce |
| SHA256: | d029ad8abbd2267b1e44df5172b93c3f832b4c21f930f5512c24e800f5ce4f8b |
This is a Windows system installed file with Windows File Protection (WFP) enabled.
What is SearchIndexer.exe?
Windows Search for the desktop and the enterprise delivers fast search capabilities for files, e-mail, documents, and more, provides performance enhancements and support for enterprise-critical features, and is easy to manage and extend with customized functionality.
About SearchIndexer.exe (from Microsoft)
“Windows Search provides an easy and comprehensive solution for finding and organizing the content you care about, whether it's on your PC, in an e-mail message or attachment, on a remote file share,”
Details
| File name: | SearchIndexer.exe |
| Publisher: | Microsoft Corporation |
| Product name: | Microsoft Windows Search Indexer |
| Description: | Microsoft® Windows® Operating System |
| Typical file path: | C:\Windows\System32\searchindexer.exe |
| Original name: | SearchIndexer.exe.mui |
| File version: | 7.00.7600.16385 (win7_rtm.090713-1255) |
| Product version: | 7.00.7600.16385 |
| Size: | 578 KB (591,872 bytes) |
| Digital DNA |
| PE subsystem: | Windows GUI |
| Entropy: | 6.116369 |
| File packed: | No |
| Code language: | Microsoft Visual C++ |
| .NET CLR: | No |
More details
Behaviors
Services
Runs under 'SYSTEM\CurrentControlSet\Services' by the Service Controller (services.exe)
- WSearch
- 'WSearch' (Windows Search)
Resource utilization
(Note: statistics below are averages based on a minimum sample size of 200 unique participants)
Averages
| CPU |
| Total CPU: | 0.00326547% | |
| Kernel CPU: | 0.00167047% | |
| User CPU: | 0.00159499% | |
| Kernel CPU time: | 14,895,340 ms/min | |
| CPU cycles: | 1,529,317/sec | |
| Context switches: | 11/sec | |
| Memory |
| Private memory: | 41.4 MB | |
| Private (maximum): | 37.46 MB | |
| Private (minimum): | 12.56 MB | |
| Non-paged memory: | 41.4 MB | |
| Virtual memory: | 204.96 MB | |
| Virtual memory (peak): | 252.24 MB | |
| Working set: | 25.95 MB | |
| Working set (peak): | 44.51 MB | |
| Page faults: | 1,525,931/min | |
| I/O |
| I/O read transfer: | 80.88 KB/sec | |
| I/O read operations: | 254/sec | |
| I/O write transfer: | 146.65 KB/sec | |
| I/O write operations: | 51/sec | |
| I/O other transfer: | 49.42 KB/sec | |
| I/O other operations: | 725/sec | |
| Resource allocations |
| Threads: | 13 | |
| Handles: | 859 | |
Process properties
| Integrety level: | System |
| Platform: | 64-bit |
| Command line: | C:\Windows\System32\searchindexer.exe /embedding |
| Owner: | SYSTEM |
| Windows Service |
| Service name: | SYSTEM\CurrentControlSet\Services\WSearch |
| Display name: | WSearch |
| Description: | “Provides content indexing, property caching, and search results for files, e-mail, and other content.” |
| Type: | Win32OwnProcess |
| Parent process: | services.exe (Services and Controller app by Microsoft) |
Threads
Averages
| ntdll.dll |
| Total CPU: | 0.05235532% | |
| Kernel CPU: | 0.04887445% | |
| User CPU: | 0.00348087% | |
| CPU cycles: | 1,225,816/sec | |
| Context switches: | 1/sec | |
| Memory: | 1.66 MB | |
| MSSRCH.DLL |
| Total CPU: | 0.05076058% | |
| Kernel CPU: | 0.00625413% | |
| User CPU: | 0.04450645% | |
| CPU cycles: | 1,254,767/sec | |
| Context switches: | 1/sec | |
| Memory: | 2.14 MB | |
| TQUERY.DLL |
| Total CPU: | 0.01015955% | |
| Kernel CPU: | 0.00186007% | |
| User CPU: | 0.00829948% | |
| CPU cycles: | 228,241/sec | |
| Memory: | 2.23 MB | |
| sechost.dll |
| Total CPU: | 0.00448914% | |
| Kernel CPU: | 0.00234954% | |
| User CPU: | 0.00213961% | |
| CPU cycles: | 106,708/sec | |
| Memory: | 124 KB | |
| ESENT.dll |
| Total CPU: | 0.00103545% | |
| Kernel CPU: | 0.00086264% | |
| User CPU: | 0.00017281% | |
| CPU cycles: | 23,582/sec | |
| Memory: | 2.48 MB | |
| SearchIndexer.exe (main module) |
| Total CPU: | 0.00057749% | |
| Kernel CPU: | 0.00048610% | |
| User CPU: | 0.00009139% | |
| CPU cycles: | 12,144/sec | |
| Memory: | 584 KB | |
| IpsPlugin.dll |
| Total CPU: | 0.00027369% | |
| Kernel CPU: | 0.00027190% | |
| User CPU: | 0.00000179% | |
| CPU cycles: | 3,510/sec | |
| Memory: | 108 KB | |
| MSVCR80.dll |
| Total CPU: | 0.00015653% | |
| Kernel CPU: | 0.00015653% | |
| User CPU: | 0.00000000% | |
| CPU cycles: | 4,909/sec | |
| Memory: | 804 KB | |
| ole32.dll |
| Total CPU: | 0.00000588% | |
| Kernel CPU: | 0.00000294% | |
| User CPU: | 0.00000294% | |
| CPU cycles: | 803/sec | |
| Memory: | 2.01 MB | |
Common loaded modules
These are modules that are typiclaly loaded within the context of this process.
Distribution by Windows OS
| OS version | distribution |
| Microsoft Windows XP |
76.42% |
|
| Windows Vista Home Premium |
11.38% |
|
| Windows Vista Ultimate |
6.50% |
|
| Windows Vista Home Basic |
4.88% |
|
| Windows Vista Business |
0.81% |
|
Distribution by country
United States installs about 64.96% of Microsoft Windows Search Indexer.
Distribution by PC manufacturer
| PC Manufacturer | distribution |
| Dell |
31.67% |
|
| Gateway |
13.33% |
|
| Intel |
13.33% |
|
| Hewlett-Packard |
12.50% |
|
| Toshiba |
6.67% |
|
| American Megatrends |
5.83% |
|
| Compaq |
3.33% |
|
| Lenovo |
3.33% |
|
| Sahara |
3.33% |
|
| ASUS |
3.33% |
|
| Sony |
1.67% |
|
| Acer |
1.67% |
|
