Removing the Search Service from a server must be done within the context of a Search Service Application. To temporarily ...

Removing the Search Service from a server must be done within the context of a Search Service Application. To temporarily reclaim resources used by the Search Service, visit the Content Sources page and select "Pause all crawls." To unprovision the search service from this machine, modify the topology of each Search Service Application and remove all components from this server. Click OK to go to the Manage Service Applications page where you can select a Search Service Application to configure.