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I Also have the very same problem as the previous posts! Memory error messages. CPU Time being eaten up by cidaemon.exe. It seems to happen the most When i use the Right Mouse menu and scroll down to selev Delete, Except it always Stops on Send to & Thats when my Athlon XP 3200+ Almost grinds to a halt! Could it be a Problem with my Memory? I have 1.5Gig Samsung PC3200 DDR400.

Have you turned off the content indexing service as many folks have suggested here?

for some reason all these people had the same problem as did I but did they not read the content of others advice and you Leo must have a hard time reading and repeating answers
good luck and thanks for the info

The 4th toe on my left foot has really been bothering me lately, so I went to the doctor and his advice was to cut it off.

I'm not sure I want to cut it off if there are other alternatives. Does anybody know if there are alternatives to cutting my toe off?

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The CIDAEMON.EXE process is supposed to do it's work at a very low processing priority level (primarily idle processor time). And it's supposed to stop it's work when something with a higher priority is loaded into the processor.

I'm having the same problem as everyone else here. I COULD just turn indexing off and do without it...but the reason I turned it on in the first place is that the faster searching it provides is really handy when I need to find something.

Up until last week, CIDAEMON.EXE behaved exactly like it was supposed to. It never used any processor time unless my computer was idle. Something changed last week that now causes it to interfere with almost EVERYTHING I do.

So the question should be, does anyone know what might have changed? Or where the settings are in the registry for this process's priority level?

Is there a new virus or spyware program that hides behind the CIDAEMON name?

I think what most of you seek is here
http://www.gamedev.net/community/forums/topic.asp?topic_id=271921

The answers to your problems are here\http://support.microsoft.com/default.aspx?scid=kb;en-us;317586
you can set how aggressive the indexing service is

cidaemon started stealing 100% of my C.P.U. about 3 weeks ago. Never had any problems with it before. I have not been on the Internet since, cause I thought it to be a Virus and did not want infect everyone I knew with it. When Cidaemon starts using all my CPU, I go to task master, and delete it from the processes, but it comes right back. The problem seems to migrate to EXPLORER.EXE and then I have to restart to rid my PC of it. A for real pain in the rear. Any body got any Ideas, if it is really cidaemon, or another hidden program?

I have had the same problems with CIDEAMON.EXE and as someone previously stated, it kicks in when processes are low or dormant (this happens mostly when i am using textpad).
Naturally when the processor goes crazy like this, we shut down any unwanted programs to no avail. i load realplayer as i am working on low cpu usage programs and this does the trick and shuts CIDAEMON up!!! try it

you can shut down the CIdaemon thingy with msconfig, under services tab, under indexing service

To easily shut down cidaemon.exe, wich is part of the microsoft indexing service, go to Start > Run, type and start services.msc, doubble-click on indexing-service in the list, and turn Starttype to off, so it will not start anymore when you start up windows.

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