If you have used or are using Windows Vista, you will likely to bump into these two creatures in Windows Vista, Windows Modules Installer that appear as TrustedInstaller.exe in Task Manager, and Windows Search that appear as SearchIndexer.exe. They work great, really, in the background. The former is used by Windows Update, and silently in the background installs and keeps your computer safe and secure and updated. That’s good. The latter is a search for my PC, I can search any file within my hundreds of thousands of files in seconds. This is also good.
What’s not good is that these two background processes in particular have no respect for its users. What I mean is these processes kicks in at the most inappropriate time, taking 50%, sometimes 100% of my 3GHz CPU, and LOTS of disk activities. It’s fine, you can suck up 50% of my CPU to do your wonderful stuff in the background when I’m checking my email, I won’t notice it. But, not when I’m playing games, when I’m watching high-definition movie, when I’m doing something CPU-intensive or hard-drive-intensive. Stop it, or just be patient and wait for your turn when I’m finished playing my games. So many times I have noticed my hard drive LED is blinking hard when I’m playing games. Actually, even by noticing that my games suddenly started lagging and dropped a lot of frames, I knew something in the background has kicked in, and I hate it.
What’s driving me even more crazy is that their behaviour is undeterminable. It can come in at any time, kicks in for 5-10 minutes, and go away. It’s just that it seem to have a bad behaviour of appearing at the wrong time. If you search these two names in Google, you’ll see that so many people have also experienced the same symptoms, so it’s not just me. So many times, before my games, I had to turn all of them off first before I started playing. I’m frustrated to say the least. Windows Vista Service Pack 1 coming early 2008 better fix all these.
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