Questions tagged [search-indexing]
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How can I make Windows 10 search my settings/control panel items?
Last night I fiddled around with some settings, and now Windows 10 refuses to search my settings. If I search "Settings" it returns a result, if I search Notepad and Chrome - it works fine. But if I ...
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Windows could not start the Windows Search service on Local Computer
I am trying to turn on Windows indexing service by following one of the answer in this question
I got this error message:
Windows could not start the Windows Search service on Local Computer.
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My SearchIndexer.exe crashes everyday
Everyday, my Reliability Monitor on Windows 7 x64 reports at least one SearchIndexer.exe crash. Here is the log.
Description
Faulting Application Path: C:\Windows\System32\SearchIndexer.exe
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Windows 10 Search not working
I used WinKey + S very much on Windows 8.1. Now when I installed Windows 10 it seems to be a problem with the search indexer. It can't find anything but some 'settings' items.
Things i've tried:
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Windows 10 search indexing does not find my files
I am having problems getting the search indexing in Windows 10 to work. This have been bugging me for months, and I have searched the Internet for hours without finding an effective solution.
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Why does Windows Search "Indexing Options" select the wrong drive if it's cloned?
I cloned a Windows 10 HDD to a Samsung SSD using "Samsung Data Migration Software", then installed a fresh copy of Windows 10 on the SSD. The SSD is now C: and the HDD is D:.
When in Control Panel > ...
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What makes a tar archive seekable?
It seems a tar archive being seekable can make a large difference when listing or extracting just a few files. Unfortunately the man page is really scarce on information. It seems that compressed ...
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Search for images by "has Geotag data"
I have tens of thousands of pictures that I took. Some have Geotag data in their EXIF, some don't. I want to run a search on my computer to find all images that have Geotag data. How can I accomplish ...
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Windows 10 Indexing Options Cannot be Accessed (and Windows Search is Not Working)
On a fully updated, freshly rebooted Window 10, I'm logged in as the domain administrator.
Windows 10 search (via start-menu > type something) is not working, so I thought I'd try re-indexing, ...
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Why my windows search index is 255 GB in size and how do I reduce it?
I try to search something on one note and it doesn't work.
So I check windows indexing service.
It says
Indexing in progress. Search result might not complete during this
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I look for that on the ...
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How-to: Add remove locations to the Windows [Vista/7] Search Index from the command line?
Despite there being the popular GUI way of doing this from the Control Panel (Indexing Options) applet, which can also be reached through Windows Explorer > Options, I would like to add/remove ...
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Windows 10 Search not working - after privacy tweaks
I installed Windows 10 enterprise for about a week,
right after I disabled all the ugly spying stuff!
Now the simple search of it, won't work.
Found thousands of others like myself having similar ...
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