Vista - Search Protocol Host...

What is the search protocol host and how do i turn it off. Often when it is
running it will use over a gig of memory, and eventually slow my computer to
a crawl in which i restart and the problem persists after rebooting. the only
way to terminate the process is in task manager and terminating the process
tree, but it instantly restarts. Has anyone else had this problem? I think i
may rename it right now then shut it down, and see if that will help.

I've been running Vista for 2 weeks now and I just started to have this
problem. I can't get it to go away... did you have any luck?

"Wayner" wrote:

> What is the search protocol host and how do i turn it off. Often when it is
> running it will use over a gig of memory, and eventually slow my computer to
> a crawl in which i restart and the problem persists after rebooting. the only
> way to terminate the process is in task manager and terminating the process
> tree, but it instantly restarts. Has anyone else had this problem? I think i
> may rename it right now then shut it down, and see if that will help.

I've been using Vista for 2 weeks now and I just started having this problem.
Have you found any solution yet?

Brent

"Wayner" wrote:

> What is the search protocol host and how do i turn it off. Often when it is
> running it will use over a gig of memory, and eventually slow my computer to
> a crawl in which i restart and the problem persists after rebooting. the only
> way to terminate the process is in task manager and terminating the process
> tree, but it instantly restarts. Has anyone else had this problem? I think i
> may rename it right now then shut it down, and see if that will help.

I've been using Vista for 2 weeks now and I just started having this problem.
Have you found any solution yet?

Brent

"Wayner" wrote:

> What is the search protocol host and how do i turn it off. Often when it is
> running it will use over a gig of memory, and eventually slow my computer to
> a crawl in which i restart and the problem persists after rebooting. the only
> way to terminate the process is in task manager and terminating the process
> tree, but it instantly restarts. Has anyone else had this problem? I think i
> may rename it right now then shut it down, and see if that will help.

Is any one out there? It is strange to think that we are the only two people
with this problem. I cant figure out how to turn off search indexing...
anyone know anything about that?

"Wayner" wrote:

> What is the search protocol host and how do i turn it off. Often when it is
> running it will use over a gig of memory, and eventually slow my computer to
> a crawl in which i restart and the problem persists after rebooting. the only
> way to terminate the process is in task manager and terminating the process
> tree, but it instantly restarts. Has anyone else had this problem? I think i
> may rename it right now then shut it down, and see if that will help.

I am also having a problem with searchprotocolhost.exe has stopped working.
It seems when I am doing some type of SEARCH on my computer weather it is
with windows media player searching for media or right clicking on start then
explore when I click on explore the computer does a SEARCH for files on the
hard drive then searchprotocolhost.exe has stopped working shows up if I do a
ctrl alt del and then go to task manager then click End Task well that don't
work for me either. So if any one comes up with any ideas let me know please!

"Wayner" wrote:

> What is the search protocol host and how do i turn it off. Often when it is
> running it will use over a gig of memory, and eventually slow my computer to
> a crawl in which i restart and the problem persists after rebooting. the only
> way to terminate the process is in task manager and terminating the process
> tree, but it instantly restarts. Has anyone else had this problem? I think i
> may rename it right now then shut it down, and see if that will help.

I am also having a problem with searchprotocolhost.exe has stopped working.
It seems when I am doing some type of SEARCH on my computer weather it is
with windows media player searching for media or right clicking on start then
explore when I click on explore the computer does a SEARCH for files on the
hard drive then searchprotocolhost.exe has stopped working shows up if I do a
ctrl alt del and then go to task manager then click End Task well that don't
work for me either. So if any one comes up with any ideas let me know please!

"Wayner" wrote:

> What is the search protocol host and how do i turn it off. Often when it is
> running it will use over a gig of memory, and eventually slow my computer to
> a crawl in which i restart and the problem persists after rebooting. the only
> way to terminate the process is in task manager and terminating the process
> tree, but it instantly restarts. Has anyone else had this problem? I think i
> may rename it right now then shut it down, and see if that will help.

I am having a similar problem. Windows Search Protocol Host crashes all the
time now after 1 week of using 5472. I did not have this issue with Beta 2
only since I "upgraded" to 5472. It is making the computer almost unuseable.
A work around would be nice, I have tried setting the windows search service
to manual but it did not solve the issue.
--
Francois Lafortune


"thunderbird53" wrote:

> I am also having a problem with searchprotocolhost.exe has stopped working.
> It seems when I am doing some type of SEARCH on my computer weather it is
> with windows media player searching for media or right clicking on start then
> explore when I click on explore the computer does a SEARCH for files on the
> hard drive then searchprotocolhost.exe has stopped working shows up if I do a
> ctrl alt del and then go to task manager then click End Task well that don't
> work for me either. So if any one comes up with any ideas let me know please!
>
> "Wayner" wrote:
>
> > What is the search protocol host and how do i turn it off. Often when it is
> > running it will use over a gig of memory, and eventually slow my computer to
> > a crawl in which i restart and the problem persists after rebooting. the only
> > way to terminate the process is in task manager and terminating the process
> > tree, but it instantly restarts. Has anyone else had this problem? I think i
> > may rename it right now then shut it down, and see if that will help.

I am also having an issue with SearchProtocolHost.exe and it is says
"SearchProtocolHost.exe stopped working and was closed". It is happening
quite often and is happening when I am not even search for anything. Playing
a game and BOOM my game minimizes because this stupid SearchProtocolHost.exe
has stopped working and it has to pop up this nice little window. Help with
this would be nice. Thank you.

"Wayner" wrote:

> What is the search protocol host and how do i turn it off. Often when it is
> running it will use over a gig of memory, and eventually slow my computer to
> a crawl in which i restart and the problem persists after rebooting. the only
> way to terminate the process is in task manager and terminating the process
> tree, but it instantly restarts. Has anyone else had this problem? I think i
> may rename it right now then shut it down, and see if that will help.

I am having the same problem w/ searchprotocolhost.exe. It pegs out my cpu
wide open, and I can't end the process. My 1st install of vista did it, so I
reinstalled. It worked again for a while then it started again. How do you
report this problem to Microsoft?

"Wayner" wrote:

> What is the search protocol host and how do i turn it off. Often when it is
> running it will use over a gig of memory, and eventually slow my computer to
> a crawl in which i restart and the problem persists after rebooting. the only
> way to terminate the process is in task manager and terminating the process
> tree, but it instantly restarts. Has anyone else had this problem? I think i
> may rename it right now then shut it down, and see if that will help.