Try it for a week. You might be surprised what you don't miss.
For years, I believed the hype. I let the Indexer run. I watched it chew through my hard drive at 3:00 AM, fans screaming like a jet engine taking off. I tolerated the "Search results are incomplete because items are still being indexed" message that seemed to live permanently in the search pane. windows search disable
Suddenly, Win + E (open Explorer) followed by typing the first three letters of my file feels revolutionary. Everything (the third-party tool by voidtools) becomes your new best friend—a search tool so fast and lightweight that it makes Microsoft’s indexing look like a horse-drawn carriage on a racetrack. The most noticeable change wasn't in search itself. It was in the background. The SearchIndexer.exe process, that silent thief of CPU cycles and disk activity, was gone. On a laptop, battery life improved by a tangible margin. On a desktop, the random 100% disk usage spikes (a plague for HDD users since Windows 8) evaporated. Try it for a week