OGEE wrote:

Latest Everything.exe installed.

It is so much faster and very useful

EXCEPT !

when minimized to the taskbar it eats over 80% of the CPU causing
other apps to turn into snails.

If I bring it to the main window "Show Search Window" Everything stops
stealing all that CPU and drops down to around 3% CPU usage.

Any way to moderate Everything ?

Sounds like when you installed the update that you lost all your old
indexes so Everything had to rebuild them all again. Just like the
Indexing Service in Windows (which can be configured to index just by
filenames or by filenames and content although content will slow it
down), Everything is just another indexing service. However, unlike the
one in Windows, Everything doesn't hide "special" folders.

How long is history configured? Forever (indefinitely) or just 1 day?
The more attributes you add to an index (folder size, file size, date
modified, date accessed, index attributes, etc) the more has to get
indexed, the larger the index database, the longer it all takes.

Are you including removable drives in the Everything index? If so, do
you often have those removable drives attached to your computer? Which,
if any, removable drives do you really need to have their files indexed?
I have a backup drive (to where copies of backups and downloads are
stored) included in Everything's indexing but not any of my other USB
flash drives since their content fluctuates based on how I use them at
the time.

Are you using FTP or HTTP to have Everything scan those remote
locations, too? Those are over the network and will not match the
speeds of your internal HDDs or SDDs. The more you have Everything
indexing, well, the longer it takes.

Have you gone into Everything's options and have it perform a rebuild of
its indexing database? How long does that take? If very short but
Everything is still chewing CPU usage afterward, it is trying to index
something that is very slow to access. During a rebuild, the status bar
in the main GUI will show what device it is currently scanning followed
by an aggregate sort operation.

Since this is an application issue and not an OS issue, you might want
to ask in a community more focused on that application. Find other
Everything users in the forums over at:

https://www.voidtools.com/forum/

I have no idea how active are their forums nor if there are any posts
discussing high CPU usage with Everything. Their forum does not permit
searches unless logged in. While I use Everything, I'm not creating an
account to do a search on your problem. Before posting over there
(provided a search turns up nothing relevant to you), you might want to
run Everything in debug mode to report any findings there; see
https://www.voidtools.com/forum/view...php?f=6&t=1713.

I did a Google search "search everything high CPU usage" and managed to
find some of their forums posts that way. For example:

https://www.voidtools.com/forum/viewtopic.php?t=508

That mentions back in 2009 there was a bug causing high CPU usage in
what was then a new release. It could happen again. I am using
Everything 1.4.1.877 x64 on Windows 7 Home x64. You cross-posted to
multiple OS newsgroups but no mention if the CPU usage problem is
exhibited on all those platforms. Just pick one on which to focus when
posting to their newsgroup. You also didn't mention bitwidth version of
Search Everything that you are using. There are 32- and 64-bit versions
of Search Everything. Since you cross-posted to the Windows XP
newsgroup, presumably you are using there the 32-bit version of Search
Everything but is the high CPU usage a problem on Windows XP? If the
problem is only on Windows 7, mention its bitwidth and also the bitwidth
of Search Everything you're using there.

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