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If you disable Cortana, Search process is still running. If you kill it, it comes back.

Hm let me think which type of software has this behaviour...

Pretty much every background service which wants to be resilient to failure? You know, like a firewall, or a search indexer or an update checker.

Firewall and search indexer are both not running when I disable them.

I'd expect the same from an update checker, you didn't specify which one but I can imagine I can stop it from running in a way that doesn't include renaming an .exe in a specific AppData folder (as for Search.exe process).

explorer.exe? /devils advocate

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