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Hola folks.

This is nothing as compare to the prob i am facing.
My Cidaemon starts acting up after some time, leaving the comp idle.

It creates acr*.tmp files in my C:WINDOWS\TEMP| folder. Takes up 50% of my processor resources.
ANd stops any kind of Windows update.

:((

For time being none of the virus scanners/anti-spywares detect it. So I have made a script that cleans the TEMP directory and kills the cidaemon process every 5 minutes.

One more unusual thing is that, usually the cidaemon runs very low, but in my case, it gets "supercharged" after some time. Invokes many dlls and changes the PID every 5/10 seconds.

Very strange behavior.

guess the acr*.tmp is being made because it calls some buggy Acrobat dll and makes it crash/dump.

Any one faced similar thing?

Actually, I DO recall how cidaemon.exe began running on my computer. I installed WinXP Pro and then decided I wanted to host my own webpages (which I'd done before in Linux/Apache). I installed IIS from the Add/Remove Programs Windows components. After installing, the default webpage at c:\inetpub\wwwroot had some Help links. When I clicked it, it said I needed to enable something about an indexing service to have it search the IIS help files. I followed the instructions (which I can no longer recall or find) and enabled the indexing service. It then warned me that the index would have to run for a while to index/catalog the help information. So, I figure that's what it's still doing. (Plus, my machine's an old spare Pentium II, so I figure it would eat a lot of CPU cycles.) But like the prior posts, it's set to LOW priority and does drop down in CPU usage when I start up other programs. I just hope my CPU doesn't overheat and die by being at 100% CPU utilization all the time when I'm not working on the PC.

I got the same problem. Every 3 minutes, cidaemon creates an Acr*.tmp file of 3.9 Mb size, just after few minutes of PC inactivity. The process takes almost 100% of CPU utilization, so I'm concerned because overheat and die.
What about your script ssslayer?
Thanks in advance

Someone said I love it when people post questions that have already been answered. I love it when people reply to the wrong questions and what I ve been reading so far this issue has been around for some time and even the host leo here with all due respect seems to be of the hard of hearing.

I am having the same problem as the last couple of posters this ms shit runs amok on my computer, in a few days it managed to create 20 gigs of acr*.tmp files on my hard drive.

I don't want to turn off the indexing service because I wouldn't have turned it on in the first place if I wanted it off.

I want to find out what happened and everything was running smooothly up until a few days ago and right now the thing takes up to 100% of my proc. speed and keeps chunking out files. Is it a virus, is it some infinite loop bug somehow related with acrobat. What do we do.

And please some informed replies.

I got the same problem. The cidaemon flooded my TEMP folder with arc*.tmp files every few times. I finally remove the acrobat reader and reinstall it. Looks like problem have gone.

What about your program sslayer? I'd love to use it - CIDAEMON keeps taking up 99% of my CPU - even without PC inactivity after about 20 mins - and it's really getting on my nerves!!!

cidaemon.exe is the service instance of the MS-INDEXING service.
You just have to de-install it from the "add or remove software" menu.
Choose "add/remove Windows components" and clear the tick-box next to "indexing service".
That´s all. No ghost in the machinery. It´s just another cpu eating MS-Process.

I got the same problem, and will try the last suggestion, but I'm concerning about the need for the program in indexing. Could it be that the problem was accidentally or purposely caused by MS? I ask this because the problem first seemed to occur when I started getting a warning that my XP wasn't genuine. IT IS! I have the license to prove it, and it's not a fake! Anyway, thinking I should check for updates, MS updates updated me with a program that has something to do with genuine verification, and then things got much worse. cidaemon.exe is now on steroids! HELP

I read the post by pleschi on May 22, 2006. After reading the comments & suggestions posted here about the cidaemon indexing service, I decided to verify the troublemaker myself. I installed TaskInfo v6.2.2 from www.IARSN.com (one of the most sophisticated task manager replacements available.)
One of the features of TaskInfo is that it allows you to monitor all files opened, and the processes or programs that open or create these files.
I used Directory Opus (the most sophisticated file manager available) and opened the C:\WINDOWS\TEMP folder... then I decided to wait about three minutes. ONE minute later WHAM!!!!
there is was... cidaemon.exe creating the ACRFFFF.tmp file, caught infraganty.

NOW HERE IS MY PROBLEM...
I followed the solution that pleschi and the others suggested about opening "ADD REMOVE PROGRAMS" then "ADD REMOVE WINDOWS COMPONENTS" and then deactiving "INDEXING SERVICES", my problem is that after I did this, the "ACR*.tmp" files continue to appear.

WHAT THE F&^%K!! I said when I saw the whole thing going on again. CIDAEMON.EXE was running, I went back again to "ADD REMOVE PROGRAMS"-->"ADD REMOVE WINDOWS COMPONENTS" ---> and THERE IT WAS.. the check mark next to INDEXING SERVICES was back!!
I tried again and again, I rebooted, and nothing, it's still there!

HELP!
Does anyone has any idea of how to take CIDAEMON.EXE out, turn it off, remove it, etc.???

At about

Simply disable the indexing service.

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