Outlook 2010 under Windows 7 exhibits Issue #5 Microsoft lists here. The symptom is:
When searching in Outlook, you get this error: “Something went wrong and your search couldn’t be completed.”, or "Search results may be incomplete because items are still being indexed".
The suggested workaround is:
Open Registry Editor.
Go to: Computer\HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE\SOFTWARE\Policies\Microsoft\Windows\Windows Search
PreventIndexingOutlook
Set DWORD: 1
But there's no Windows Search
key under Computer\HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE\SOFTWARE\Policies\Microsoft\Windows
on my machine. (The key does exist in several other places in the registry, e.g., HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE\SOFTWARE\Microsoft\Windows\Windows Search
.)
Should I create a Windows Search
key so that I can create a PreventIndexingOutlook
underneath it?