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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 ****?
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this is fantastic , really appreciate , it works !
after trying two days online, only this solution works !
So far, this workaround has worked for me for the past month-
- Bring up the “Edit group policy” control panel by typing ‘group’ in the search bar.
- Enable 'Disable indexer backoff':
- Disable 'Prevent indexing Microsoft Office Outlook':
- Disable 'Prevent indexing when running on battery power to conserve energy'':
For me, I believe all three were necessary to work around this problem.
I have Windows 11 Home Edition on my Dell XPS 8940, so I don't have access to the Group Policy Editor. However, following the instructions (both the ownership/permissions change and the value change) in
https://office-watch.com/2022/force-windows-indexing-to-run-faster/
I was able to speed up indexing by at least an order of magnitude.
I have Windows 10 Home Edition on another XPS 8940, and the registry structure governing indexing appears to be the same for W10 and W11. My W10 device indexes normally without the registry change described above, so this change is a temporary work-around, not a fix. Making the registry change defeats the W11 indexing pause function. The permanent fix for the W11 slow-indexing problem lies with MS: "something" is spuriously invoking the indexing slowdown; it needs to be identified and corrected.
I just got a second massive update. Search in explorer returned nothing.
Checked indexing and I found 32000 and "speed affected by user activity"
It never moved.
I clicked advanced and looked at everything and it looks like i'd left it.
When I cancelled I saw "indexing paused"
However the counter is increasing under indexing paused.
It appears the morons have somehow coded indexing backwords where indexing is halted and paused is actually indexing.
One can see that if it is set for indexing at startup the counter will never progress.
If one looks at indexing and kicks it into paused then the counter continues.
So I'm going to trust the counter and not the message.
This has been screwed up in win 10 also. Someone said there's a resume button?
The counter increaseing, the message that says speed affected by user activity and a non-grey pause button should match.
Similary the counter stoppig, the message idexing paused, and a non-grey resume button should match.
i'm not suprised the taskbar is fubar because they've appeared to have put out an OS that will never find anything.
Literally Windows 11 should be called MaGoo...
Hello Greg
While doing the steps you mentioned above, i got this error. Kindly help
This work around seems to be working, but it's really frustrating that we have to do stuff like this to carry out a basic and essential computer activity like searching for files!
