I recently reinstalled Vista from the HP factory restore, and now, one day later, my system is almost completely unusable due to something totally hogging the hard drive. Windows Media Center isn't even capable of playing stored TV -- it's c h o ppy like crazy.
In the event viewer, I see SearchIndexer.exe gets blamed for excessive disk usage, and then every other process in the system.
However, I can't find SearchIndexer.exe in the task manager (even with all-users view), Windows Search has been disabled in the services manager.
Is there any way of restoring my system to normal performance, or do I have to reinstall Vista yet again, or maybe install XP32 and try to scrounge for 32-bit drivers for all my hardware?
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