Windows 11 Indexing is paused

Anonymous
2022-01-13T06:55:55+00:00

What the hell is up with Windows 11 and the indexing being paused?

I was told by customer help to rebuild, which I did. And it took forever to index a few thousand files (because "indexing is paused") and was still not finished when...

Yesterday, windows took it upon itself to start rebuilding without discussing it with me first, and now I am back at square one - its taking like a bazillion years because "indexing is paused".

All search results return as not found !!!!!!!!!!

Does anybody know how to fix this ****?

Windows for home | Windows 11 | Performance and system failures

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  1. Anonymous
    2022-05-07T19:46:33+00:00

    Am starting a new post, because this problem has now expanded. Besides the pausing, I'm now encountering situation where Search doesn't index contents. Not for pdf's, not for MS Office documents, not for the other file types where i have an ifilter installed. The only files being returned in searches are those where the search term is in the file properties. I rebooted, rebuilt the index (at least for the file system, haven't rebuilt Outlook yet), and that did nothing.

    This is starting to get very frustrated. The issues with search have been going on for months, and instead of getting better it's getting worse. And clearly MS doesn't care.

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  2. Anonymous
    2022-04-29T11:15:00+00:00

    Yeah... me too. It did seem to be fixed yesterday but it is broken again today.

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  3. Anonymous
    2022-04-28T19:05:15+00:00

    In the hopes that MS engineers are actually paying attention, I will note that the pause seems much more likely to occur when Outlook is running -- which of course is the vast majority of the time that the computer is active. There are times when Outlook is running but the search is not paused, but I haven't seen situation where Outlook is not running but search is paused. Can't say with certainty, of course, since I'm not checking status of search every second, but ...

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  4. Anonymous
    2022-04-28T19:00:19+00:00

    Did the KB5012643 install successfully a couple of hours ago, but still getting the pause. Oh well!

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  5. Anonymous
    2022-04-28T13:54:36+00:00

    I installed KB5012643 today - and I think (?) it fixed this

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