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
    2022-04-13T18:30:28+00:00

    I am also having this issue. You say this has existed for at least 5 months - is there another place that is tracking status that shows the progress?

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  2. Anonymous
    2022-04-14T06:15:22+00:00

    I see other complaints going back to October 2021 if I search for "indexing windows 11" in the "Microsoft Feedback Hub". But this "answers.microsoft.com" forum is the only place where I found a solution (albeit transitory) posted by JC305 above to stop and restart the WSearch service whenever this happens.

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  3. Anonymous
    2022-04-14T06:22:32+00:00

    Correction - the transitory solution that worked for me was posted by MarcellusBuchheit above.

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  4. Anonymous
    2022-04-14T13:06:00+00:00

    Thanks. Yes, that solution does work for me also.

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  5. Anonymous
    2022-04-14T13:14:03+00:00

    The solution works but it's not a long term fix. Indexing keeps getting paused. Anyone know why?

    MICROSOFT? Can you deal with this please?

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