Like Minimalist, Windows Indexing is disabled as part of my Windows builds. Since I would never even consider the indexing of the CONTENT of my files (for anything useful), file indexing itself (name/location) is performed by "Everything," one of the 1st tools installed on my System.
Would you know if third party programs like Copernic or Xyplorer rely on Windows indexing or use their own indexing? I suspect they have their own way of doing the indexing but perhaps someone can confirm?
I turn mine off for the supposed benefit concerning ssd's I use UltraSearch... "UltraSearch does not maintain an index which is stored on your harddisk, but achieves its speed by working directly on the Master File Table (MFT) of the NTFS partitions. UltraSearch even identifies NTFS hardlinks." http://www.jam-software.com/ultrasearch/
I've never disabled indexing on any of my computers. On my main laptop, I have an SSD, but have still kept indexing enabled. Since the majority of time, I do searches from the Start Menu, and because I am well aware that SSDs have a very long lifetime (so Windows indexing my files, won't kill my SSD), I think it makes sense to leave in enabled. It turns out I have DeskRule installed on my computer, and it is very quick at searching. Still, I prefer to search from the Start Menu most of the time.
I have just made a post in the "SecureAPlus Freemium", https://www.wilderssecurity.com/threads/secureaplus-freemium.350914/page-71#post-2647974
My primary machine - an i7 with SSD - used to completely freeze up about 3 minutes after boot as soon as I upgraded from Win 8.1 to W10. I discovered it was searchindexer.exe so now I have indexing completely disabled by disabling Windows Search service. Could be that I only need to disable indexing for certain folders selectively, none of which are that large, but I have not tested this and can't be bothered. Still happened after AU. Could be that it is sorted out now, after more recent Cumulative Updates, but I don't miss indexing.
I've never had any slowdowns with search indexing with Windows 10, but I have had issues from time to time with Windows 7.
I use Index Your files, which is portable and does a scan,and then builds a database of the drive, cause i prefer to carry around all my hard drives contents on a usb stick/drive.. so i can easily see+find if i have something on a offline drive,which i'm looking for.. edit: oh my bad..it seems to support offline indexing.. (need to do folder indexing and add the folders manually tho..)