Workaround: Vista 5365 Explorer runs really slow

On Build 5365 of Windows Vista there is a bug with SearchIndexer.exe which causes it to crash continuously and slow down Windows Explorer. Thankfully I found a fix on this forum.

SearchIndexer has stopped working

Symptoms

  • Windows Explorer is really slow. Folder contents take forever to display.
  • File | Save As../Open.. has a lag of about 5 seconds.
  • You keep getting the “SearchIndexer.exe stopped working and was closed” errors

Causes

  • System Locale is not English (United States)

Workaround

Change system locale to English (United States)

  • Go to Control Panel
  • Under “Clock, Language and Region” select “Change the system language”
  • Select the “Administrative” tab
  • Select “Change System Locale…”
  • Change the current language to “English (United States)”
  • Restart when prompted

 

This entry was written by Grant Holliday, posted on April 30, 2006 at 8:20 am, filed under Windows Vista. Bookmark the permalink. Follow any comments here with the RSS feed for this post. Post a comment or leave a trackback: Trackback URL.

2 Comments

  1. Mitch Denny
    Posted May 1, 2006 at 11:14 am | Permalink

    I thought that I was having this problem, I tried this but I am still getting high CPU utilisation (in a VPC). Wierd.

  2. Frederic VUONG
    Posted May 1, 2006 at 10:06 pm | Permalink

    Another solution is to disable a service named Windows Search."Start" ;o) > Control Panel > Administrative Tools > Services > Windows Search > properties > Disable


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