Just follow the steps below as the last thing you do before leaving your PC at night, and let it run uninterrupted.On Sunday, Ap09:28:28 AM Scott Jones wrote: It’s therefore best to plan a Windows Search index to take place overnight.
On slower systems, the rebuilding process may decrease system performance while it runs (you can see how much of an impact the process has on your PC by finding the Microsoft Windows Search Indexer process in Task Manager). You can still use your PC during the rebuild, but you won’t have full access to Windows Search until the rebuild is complete. One note before we begin: rebuilding the Windows Search index can take a very long time depending on the speed of your PC, your storage drives, and the number of files that need to be indexed. This index can become corrupted or otherwise encounter issues, and rebuilding it from scratch is often a good way to solve Windows Search problems. Regardless of whether the location of your files was already in the indexed locations list, you’ll want to rebuild your Windows Search index as your next troubleshooting step. You’ll see a list of locations and applications that are currently being indexed note that if a drive or folder is listed here, then all subfolders and files included in that drive are indexed as well. In the Indexing Options window, the first step to take when Windows Search isn’t finding your files is to make sure that Windows is indexing the location where your files reside. If you’re not facing a total malfunction of Windows Search capabilities, you can quickly jump to Indexing Options directly by searching for it from the Start Menu (Windows 7 and Windows 10) or the Start Screen (Windows 8 and 8.1). Here’s how to fix Windows Search issues in all versions of Windows from 7 to 10.įirst, head to the Control Panel and find the section labeled Indexing Options. If Windows Search stops working for you and no longer returns search results for files that you know exist, there are a few steps you can take to troubleshoot the issue. By default, Windows Search will index certain common locations on your drive, such as the User folder, Outlook Messages, and Internet Explorer browsing history. Windows includes powerful system-wide search functionality that lets users quickly find files and other data via a Start Menu or Start Screen search.
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