This was AWESOME and worked! BUT I did not turn off Outlook as I use that the most and it STILL worked. Indexing is working away as I type. THANKS!
Windows 11 Indexing is paused
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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 ****?
Windows for home | Windows 11 | Performance and system failures
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Anonymous
2022-11-28T17:14:53+00:00 -
Anonymous
2022-11-27T01:30:09+00:00 Gosh that's too bad, it worked for me.
Are you able to use group policy editor to check that the 3 specific settings now match the "Enabled", then "Disabled", then "Disabled" settings from the posted 3 specific screen captures?
I had the same problem on two different laptops.
For me, I'm lucky that the workarounds worked in both cases.
Perhaps Windows 10 is different from Windows 11(?)
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Anonymous
2022-11-26T01:00:55+00:00 Having the same issue in Windows 10.
Tried the group policy work around.
Indexing is paused in Indexing Options.
Indexing has been temporarily paused in Settings.
This issue is affecting the way the Outlook search. The search results are not showing all items.
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Anonymous
2022-11-23T07:41:17+00:00 we have the same question
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Anonymous
2022-11-22T19:24:15+00:00 Thanks @Jackie. This is the ONLY solution that worked. The Page-1 reply from the 10-yr vet did nothing. THIS has indexing underway. Kudos.