If you check up on the services running in your Windows system’s background, you will notice that the search services consume a bulk of the memory. This, in turn, can reduce the performance of the system significantly. Windows search services exist to allow better indexing which in turn will result in faster search results. But in the quest of achieving faster search results, the search services of Windows 10 are taking a toll on devices with limited resources.
If your device is low in memory, you definitely don’t want a background service to take a chunk of it. For a system that has an ample amount of RAM, this is no issue at all. But for those with low RAM configurations, disabling search indexing and caching functionality could be a better idea. So here in this article, we will show you how you can disable windows search services. Without any further ado, let’s get into it.
How to disable Windows search in Windows 10?
There are two ways to go about disabling Windows search service. You can either disable it temporarily such that it starts again after the system reboots. Or you can disable it permanently, which will disable the service completely in your system.


