Windows Desktop Search – SEARCHPROTOCOLHOST.EXE

Searchprotocolhost.exe, searchfilterhost.exe and searchindexer.exe install with Microsoft Windows Desktop Search. Windows Desktop Search helps you quickly find and retrieve e-mail messages, documents, and many other file types located on your PC and corporate network. This tool is available as a standalone or comes with the Microsoft Windows Vista operating system. If you want this search functionality, leave these files in place.

More information can be found at http://www.microsoft.com/windows/desktopsearch/default.mspx and at http://support.microsoft.com/kb/911993.

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