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[quote who="Neil Banfield" reply="3" id="3241747"]Do you have the Windows Indexing service disabled? From the description the search is taking a massive amount of cpu and memory and this would point to it not searching an indexed location. I also cannot reproduce any leaks, I think it is simply the memory being allocated by the OS in order to perform the search which would explain why the memory allocation would decrease once you cancel the search.[/quote] Guess

[quote who="Rosco_P" reply="1" id="3240985"]I remember a post about this a bit back, which related to the Windows search indexing. If I remember correctly (which I may not be), pausing/unpausing that should do it.[/quote] What do you mean by "pausing and unpausing" are you wanting us to type slower for it not to freak out LOL :D Anyhow I tried searching on a multi-core CPU and instead of it freezing and crashing explorer it will still work but my CPU will go up to 50% for the ne

So I would like to start by saying THANKS for adding my request for the search to search the control panel. However, another issue remains. If I start typing in the search box all of the sudden the explorer.exe will rise to 100% and will eventually crash and restart explorer.exe. I am running Windows Server 2012 with the Desktop Experience feature added.

I am posting this as a suggestion because the search has one missing part that is crucial for it to be identical to the Windows 7 search and that is settings. For example, in Windows 7 if you type "Network Connections" you'll see network connections while in Start8 you will not. It appears that Start8 is only searching for applications and not Windows Settings. Currently we are stuck with having to press WINDOWS KEY + W in order to access the settings search. This needs to be incorporated