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Why does cidaemon keep coming back on and consuming such large amounts of resources after I have disabled the indexing on my hard drive? I find it running on my task manager consuming up to one gig of virtual memory. I have also tried renaming the cidaemon.exe file only to find a new one there to replace it.

Have you actually turned off the indexing service? Right click My Computer, select Manage, expand Services and Applications, click on Services, double click on Indexing Service. Press Stop, if it's running. Make sure that startup type is set to Disabled, and press OK.

I have got the same cidaemon in my PC. But one Q how to know that the startup type is disabled or not. where and how to look for that.
Without that i tried stopping indexing services but it got stuck. I ran for sometime then stopped responding.

Right click on "My Computer" on your desktop, click on "Manage", expand "Services and Applications", click on "Services", right click on "Indexing Service" and select "Properties". There you can set the start-up type, as well as stop the service immediately.

I'm receiving the following message under cidaemon.exe - applications error
The instruction at "0x7c911fbc" referrenced memory at "0x00000000". The memory could not be "read". Click OK to terminate the program.

The memory locations vary and the error indicates that the the memory could not "read" and in some cases "write". What's up and how do I fix it. Running on Windows XP.

I'd just turn off the content indexing service, if you don't need it (if you don't know, you probably don't). See the article you just commented on.

OK, I have the same problem, but the real question is why is cidaemon not playing nice?
any ideas?

cidaemon is actually and indexing service which enables windows to search your hardrive faster and more efficiantly. if you do not know it just turn it off it has most probably no affect on XP, directly.

I had the same problem...cidaemon consumes all my processing and memory.

I'm glad I found Ask Leo!

I managed to stop the indexing-service. But every time I start my comp ...there it is again,
I have to stop ciaemon.exe manualy.

Where, of how can I stop the start-up of this exe-file ?

You need to stop the service, AND set it to "disabled".

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