Answer: Windows 10 search indexing is designed to make finding things on your computer faster by creating an index of your files. It’s like the index in the back of a massive book; it makes it much faster to find something because Windows isn’t having to search through every file, every time.

Does disabling Windows Search improve performance?

If you turn off the Windows search index feature on your hard drives, you can get better performance on Windows 10. First let’s take a look at why you may want to do this.

Is it OK to disable Windows Search?

If you really don’t use Windows Search at all, you can disable indexing completely by turning off the Windows Search service. This will stop the indexing of all files. You’ll still have access to search, of course. It will just take longer since it has to search through your files every time.