I was recomended the XP upgrade as being more 'stable'.. HA!! and 'faster' .. HA!!! than Win2k.

Programs take twice as long to open (then often crash), windows explorer almost ground to a halt, CPU usage 100% etc.etc.

Thanks to the above advice it's like being back on a Mac Thanks all.

PS. found thread also on google

Thanks - cured my problems - I have bridged wireless to ethernet networks together, and assume that the reason for the insane overhead was that it tried to index all files/drives/pc's it found on the network(s) - doh! Cheers, David

The indexing service is a great attribute, but if it comes at the overhead of 100% CPU usage, it bites the bullet. I wonder if microsoft is aware of the issue? Seems they wouldn't enable this if they knew about the overhead..?

Or maybe it only happens on Centrinos? Anyway, I also found this thread on google for this issue.

I wasn't having crash problems, but it was really bugging me that my CPU usage was going up to around 80% all the time, and staying there. CIDAEMON was always the culprit, it seemed.

Foillowed the advice of the thread, so thanks! Will see over the week if this has any effect on file retrieval -- if I find any problems, I'll write back.

Thanks again!

hey thanks a whole lot this service was slowing up everything on my computer

found this on google

What a bloody nice bloke, thanks for the tip

This post is great! The only place I could find with Google to help me. Thanks.

Martin

Adding to the chorus

Many thanks, local folks coundn't figure it out either. This was (after a number of tries) the only one that EXPLAINED the problem.

thanks again

thx much!!
again, I come from google

For you Swedish users out there in swedish XP the service is named "Indexing Service".

And is described as "Indexerar innehåll och egenskaper för filer på lokala och fjärranslutna datorer; erbjuder snabb åtkomst till filer tack vare ett flexibelt frågespråk."

And the process file is located in "C:\WINDOWS\system32\cisvc.exe"

Find all this in "Kontrollpanelen/Administrationsverktyg/Dator hantering/Tjänster och program/Tjänster"...

Thanks, I also found this thread on google. Helped me a lot
On WIndows XP , Services are found on Control Panel - Administrative Tools

I am so happy i found this fix posted and did not throw my computer out the window as planned

Had the same problem. Thanks once more, Rob, for your answer. Glad I tried Google.
What kind of crap is this from Microsoft? Does anyone know how they respond to this?

greeting,
Niels from the Netherlands, Europe

Cheers. Sorted my laptop out a treat. Thanks.

thats for the help... was getting sick of CPU going crazy everytime i turned the laptop on..

Cheers!!