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Summary: Cidaemon is the "Content Indexing Daemon", which is a background process that builds a fast search index of the files on your computer.

What is cidaemon?

That's the "Content Indexing Daemon"; a background process that builds a fast search index of the files on your computer. Chances are you don't need it, and can disable the indexing service. "Black Viper" has a good overview of XP Services.

Article 306 | Posted June 14, 2004

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I use Microsoft Flight Simulator and have recently upgraded from fs2004 to FSX. I have been having terrible trouble with the programme hesitating and stuttering along, I have stopped certain actions using the task manager and the one programme to make an immediate difference was cidaemon.exe. When I removed it everything ran smoothly but it came back within minutes. I knew when it came back because it started stuttering again.I am going to try and disable it using some of the info I have gleaned I will let you know whether it works and thanks 4 the help Neil Birch

Posted by: Neil Birch at January 19, 2007 09:25 AM

I use Microsoft Flight Simulator and have recently upgraded from fs2004 to FSX. I have been having terrible trouble with the programme hesitating and stuttering along, I have stopped certain actions using the task manager and the one programme to make an immediate difference was cidaemon.exe. When I removed it everything ran smoothly but it came back within minutes. I knew when it came back because it started stuttering again.I am going to try and disable it using some of the info I have gleaned I will let you know whether it works and thanks 4 the help Neil Birch

Posted by: Neil Birch at January 19, 2007 09:26 AM

Yes it does make a difference because the flight simulator started jerking again, looked in task manage daemon was back again.Disabled it and everything ran smoothly again.Neilb

Posted by: Neil Birch at January 22, 2007 11:13 AM

This is the solution!!!
====>Control Panel
====>Administrative Tools
====>Services
====>Indexing Service, Open
====>Startup type ====> Manual
====>Stop
====>OK
Enjoy ;)
Alejowin

im going thru this solution.

but where did the cidaemon go?

Posted by: sis at February 10, 2007 10:14 PM

How in the heck do I disable cidaemon? I see all kinds of comments about it but nothing I see tells me what to do about it.

Posted by: John Terdik at March 21, 2007 10:09 PM

I realize cidaemon.exe is a Windows indexing service but if I sort the process list by name there are 2 of them. One of them takes a non-trivial amount of CPU time when I leave the computer alone for a while (expected), but quickly goes to zero when I touch my mouse.
Is it normal to have two of them on the process list? I double checked the spelling and they are in fact two separate processes running ( like multiple svchosts).

Thanks.

Posted by: kevin at November 8, 2007 04:11 PM

Thanks, everytime I take my computer off sleep mode and when I start it up, this process starts and it is really annoying.

Posted by: Reuel at December 17, 2007 04:52 PM

Helped me do what I needed. Very relevant and effective stuff. Keep it up.

Cheers!

Posted by: Nani at December 31, 2007 01:32 PM

http://www.adobe.com/cfusion/knowledgebase/index.cfm?id=330414

and/or

http://kb.adobe.com/selfservice/viewContent.do?externalId=330414

refer to solutions for the following problem:

Many Acrobat 7.0.x acr*.tmp files created in the Windows\Temp folder

Posted by: sheldon richter at February 4, 2008 02:02 PM

In my case, the hint about acr*.tmp files in the windows\temp folder was a good lead. Inside that folder I had over 20,000 files, and I think most were acr* files. Too many files made Explorer crash, so from command prompt I was able to delete all files in the temp folder, and the indexing service recovered to normal cpu usage.

Posted by: Fixed It at June 27, 2008 06:47 AM

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