Indexing not running in Windows 8.1

Anonymous
2013-10-26T15:38:03+00:00

Help ,  I am trying to find out why my Indexing is not running at all. I tried rebuilding the index which doesn't show anything at all. I have never

encountered this problem. I tried the Windows troubleshooter and its response is comic all (Indexing is not working). I have a hard time searching

for anything. I did a check disc on my C drive but its working fine. Any Ideas I would truly appreciate it.                   Bob G._2014

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  1. Anonymous
    2013-12-22T13:17:27+00:00

    Hi,

    I am sorry for the delay.

    It is a PowerShell cmdlet. For more information, please try the below:

    1. Open PowerShell command window in Administrator privileges. For which, you need to elevate the context using 'Run As Administrator' option available when you right-click on the application icon.
    2. Run the command Get-Help Restart-Service to get information about restart-service cmdlet.
    3. For complete information, you can also try the same with 'Full' attribute as Get-Help Restart-Service -Full.

    Thanks

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  2. Anonymous
    2013-12-22T12:59:45+00:00

    Bad news: a few days ago I reported that Barry's registry key edit worked for me. This was true but only for a few days. Somehow Windows has recreated the offending registry key and now I have the same problems all over again. Barry's fix appeared to be temporary, at least for me. Still waiting for Microsoft to give us a permanent solution to this problem.

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  3. Anonymous
    2013-12-22T09:35:00+00:00

    Hi,

    Apologize for the delay in reply.

    Thank you for sharing the information. Your efforts to resolve this issue is very much appreciated.

    Feel free to post your query here on Windows Forums, we would be happy to assist you.

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  4. Anonymous
    2013-12-16T12:24:48+00:00

    Thank you very much for your comment. I renamed the registry file recommended by you and my Windows search as well as outlook search are both working fine now.

    Hope all other users facing this issue will get benefited by the solution that I reproduce below:

    I renamed HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE\SOFTWARE|Microsoft\Windows Search\FileChangeClientConfigs so that if needed I could restore it. Then I restarted my PC.

    I just add that after doing this one needs to go to "task manager" services and to Wsearch and set it to automatic delayed and manually start it. It shows running and all works fine thereafter. The PC takes some time to re-index depending on the data one has .

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  5. Anonymous
    2013-12-15T17:21:06+00:00

    I renamed HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE\SOFTWARE|Microsoft\Windows Search\FileChangeClientConfigs so that if needed I could restore it. Then I restarted my PC.

    I had the same issues described by others: indexing was not working, I could not start the service, Windows Resource Protect found corrupt files but could not fix them, etc. I tried Barry's solution of renaming a Registry key and viola! after I rebooted indexing was working again in both Windows and Outlook. The indices had to be rebuilt but now everything is back to normal.

    By the way, in my case the Registry key did not point to SkyDrive - it simply had no value. However, renaming the key solved all of my problems. Thanks, Barry.

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