However, many time Superfetch can cause high disk or CPU usage and can cause your PC to run slowly. Superfetch (called Sysmain beginning with Windows 10 version 1809) was designed to speed up performance by arranging frequently used app data and components into a contiguous area on the hard drive which was then preloaded into memory to speed up the loading time of an app or programs. Windows will again start search indexing. If desired, you can always go back and change Windows Search startup type to “Automatic” or “Automatic (Delayed Start)” and restart your computer. Your searches may be slightly slower, but your computer should be slightly faster. Next to “Startup type” click on the down arrow to expand the list and choose “Manual”
Locate Windows Search in the list of services, and double-click it.ģ. Type SERVICES.MSC in the taskbar search and press Enter.Ģ. You can turn off Search Indexing in Windows 10 this way:ġ. But even if you have an SSD drive, turning off indexing can improve your speed, because the constant writing to disk that indexing does can eventually slow down SSDs too. This is especially true if your computer has a standard hard drive. Turning off Search Indexing can speed up your computer.
But if your PC is slow, that constant indexing can decrease performance. Indexing is supposed to make searching your PC faster. Windows 10 constantly indexes your hard disk in the background. Slow PC? Try Turning off Search Indexing and/or Superfetch
