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Old July 17th 18, 07:07 PM posted to alt.windows7.general
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Default What's "Everything" doing?

J. P. Gilliver (John) wrote:

I just found Everything using most of one of my cores, after leaving the
machine unattended - but on - for some hours. It showed in task manager
as using 2x% of CPU (Task Manager thinks I have four cores), and when I
shut it down (via the tray icon, not from Task Manager), CPUsage went
back to idle.

I've just reopened Everything (once I have opened it, I normally leave
it open, as it's so useful), and (after initial peak) it's sitting there
down at near enough zero CPU usage again.

I've noticed this behaviour more than once recently. Anyone know what
it's doing? FWIW, it's "Version 1.4.1.895 (x86)".

(Hour or two later: it's still down in the 00 usage.)


Are you running it as a service? It is a file indexer, just like is the
Windows Search service. That means having to monitor and record changes
made through the file system calls (create, rename, move, delete, etc).
When running as a service, you do not need to leave the Everything
window open. In fact, that's just a waste of GUI resources until you
decide to do a file search because Everything is still running in the
background as a service.

In Everything, go to Tools - Options - General: UI tree node. Is the
option enabled to "Run in background"?

When you returned to your computer and Everything.exe got busy, was the
computer sleeping and you woke it up? Low-priority processes or those
configured to not wake the computer will pend their disk I/O until you
wake up the computer (or a BIOS alarm wakes it or a scheduled event in
Task Scheduler is configured to wake the computer).
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