November 21, 2020 By Directors
In this article, I'll tell you how to disable Windows 10 search services. If you disable Windows 10 search, the search caching and indexing feature will be disabled. Although Windows 10 search will continue to work. Most of the time, it is done to improve Windows 10 performance as Windows 10 search services consume a lot of memory in the background. Let's see how to disable it.
Temporarily disable Windows 10 search
Step 1: Open system symbol as an administrator. To open Command Prompt as an administrator, search for cmd in Windows 10 search and right-click the search result and click run as administrator.
Step 2: Run the command below.
net.exe stop "Windows search"
Note: This only disables it temporarily and restarts as soon as Windows restarts the next time. To restart it manually run the command: -
net.exe start "Windows search"
Disable Windows 10 Search permanently
Step 1: Search services.msc in the Windows 10 taskbar search.
Step 2: Click Services.
Step 3 - Now, find Windows search list item.
Step 4: Double click on it. To choose kind of start like Disabled from the drop-down menu.
Step 5: Click Stop. Finally press ok.
