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But what's the point of doing this? Again and again... That's like emptying a bucket under a hole in your roof instead of fixing that hole. Why would you do that unless you enjoy emptying a bucket? If you don't want to have a big search index and you don't use the Search feature, simple uninstall it or remove some directories from the search indexer.
– David Ferenczy Rogožan
Commented Feb 29, 2016 at 11:35
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Instead of renaming/deleting it and forcing a rescan of your disk, you could try defragging it: support.microsoft.com/en-gb/help/2838018/… - esentutl.exe /d %AllUsersProfile%\Microsoft\Search\Data\Applications\Windows\Windows.edb
– mwfearnley
Commented Feb 25, 2020 at 17:08
Simple, fast and efficient ... and it can also be included in a simple script.
– Peppo
Commented Jul 10, 2020 at 8:28

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