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I recently installed service pack 2, since then my hard drive seems to be
working constantly. When I opened windows task manager and clicked the
processes tab I found that a process called cisvc.exe was running and using
60% of my processor into the bargain. When I shut this process down my hard
drive returned to normal and my processor went back to idle. Can anyone tell
me what this process is and can I shut it down permanently.Thanks.
 
From liutilities.com:

Process File: cisvc or cisvc.exe
Process Name: Microsoft Index Service Helper

Description:
cisvc.exe is a process that belongs to the Microsoft Windows Operating
System. It is used to monitor the memory usage in CIDAEMON.exe and prevent
low memory problems. This is an essential system process and should not be
removed. This program is an essential system process and should not be
removed.

Mule
 
So turn off indexing, which means cisvc.exe either stops properly, or kill
it. It seems to have only 1 purpose, and that is associated with MS trying
to index your whole drive and network drives just so the search function
goes a little faster, at the same time that the index function is using up
resources and adding to the clutter of running programs. Please don't just
blindly quote MS, I'm not saying they are wrong, but read what the OP has in
the first message, and give advise accordingly. Better yet - he now has a
choice - leave indexing on, and mabe still have the slowdown, or turn the
service off, and speed up the box.
Thanks for allowing me to rant - just ran in to MS's idea of XP SP2 and
Sysprep and overwriting of the default profile with the Admin profile - WHY?

Randy
 
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