searchapp.exe
Summary
Windows Search Application - modern search UI component replacing SearchUI.exe and Cortana in newer Windows 10/11.
searchapp.exe is the 697th most commonly executed Windows program in EchoTrail's dataset, observed 5,513 times across enterprise environments. It typically runs from C:\Windows\SystemApps\Microsoft.Windows.Search_cw5n1h2txyewy and it is most often launched by svchost.exe.
Behavior
Top Paths
- C:\Windows\SystemApps\Microsoft.Windows.Search_cw5n1h2txyewy100%
Top Hashes (SHA256)
- 24f4282c6898dd4b85d4fafa52014362cbeff81f1ea433f2ba44717f2d6f165612.26%
- be1c4326648531600d4edaff0383ac6d1022844557b5ab4d89bab71760113c419.96%
- 65850f4fc09f65984e0f64aa498d93ce4df1a7f887297a847e57f2006763bd728.4%
- 0df46a89a2c6f8080c110f3233c7143f4347769ed4857bdba1649146a590c9fd4.32%
- 2fa432919923d3df4091345bac6f2454238d505f973bf8c7c1952ad04f42c2054.28%
- fd23d21d5ea4b56bd80e5bfdbf4b7a7d4da79cd7152cb0d9502293cfa69375fc3.83%
- f05a77c204cd09f9a21028e36c01faed7dca76ec68da4ee85c2488d9a77b393e3.25%
- ec67c0d32c8270fed6249dae1522677a38799eba0f2e5e8f1649704d63454b283.03%
- 58b3cb099e78988f796f02c844c8c34a53c3e25c176170fcecd6ddb13d4765a72.96%
- 25e4444977024c9acc48a635308101b55b0665ea3f520b2b82b63257c9b881272.74%
Process Ancestry
Top Parents
- svchost.exe100%
Top Children
- WerFault.exe72.97%
- msedgewebview2.exe12.16%
- wermgr.exe10.81%
- conhost.exe2.7%
Rare or environment-specific process names are omitted from ancestry tables. Percentages are of all observed relationships.
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Data from EchoTrail's dataset of ~346M Windows process executions. Last extracted 2026-08-04.