ciscv.exe
What is ciscv.exe?
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Windows Process Description:
The file process ciscv.exe is a process also known as the Content Index service or indexing service. This file ciscv.exe is authored by Microsoft Corporation. The function of the program file ciscv.exe is to index the entire hard disk. It follows to say that its memory usage will depend on the number of files found in the hard disk. Since they are directly proportional, having a great number of files in the computer may mean using up a big amount of CPU and RAM.
The process ciscv.exe can also perceive the idle time using the activity of the CPU and drives which were created by the user. When using low resource applications such as typing documents or reading emails, this process ciscv.exe will sense that the computer is idle thus allot more CPU and RAM to indexing the hard drive. The program ciscv.exe is considered to be a system process thus it is safe to have this in the computer. On the other hand, this file ciscv.exe is not recognized as an application.
This file ciscv.exe does not exhibit a visible window when it runs therefore it is considered to be a background process. The program file ciscv.exe may use the network for its process, especially those remote ones. This file ciscv.exe does not use the internet to run.
Another service provided by Microsoft is the Indexing Service. This service is responsible for extracting content from the files found in the hard drive. This extracted content will be used to make an index or a catalog to be able to make searching the files faster and easier. The content extracted from the files are information on its text using the local and network hosts. The Indexing Service first filters the files for their content afterwhich it merges the information extracted into several catalogs which was indexed to be able to facilitate efficiency of file searches.
Author: Microsoft.
Author URL: www.microsoft.com
Part Of: Microsoft Operating System
Memory Usage: High, around 2MB since it is concerned with the indexing of the operating systems.
System Process: Yes
Application: No
Background Process: Yes
Uses Network: Yes
Uses Internet: No
Hardware Related: No
Common Path: C:\Windows\Microsoft\
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