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
    2022-04-14T13:14:03+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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  2. Anonymous
    2023-11-16T05:57:11+00:00

    This workaround has worked for me for the past year:

    1. Bring up the “Edit group policy” control panel by typing ‘group’ in the search bar.
    2. Enable 'Disable indexer backoff':

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    1. Disable 'Prevent indexing Microsoft Office Outlook':

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    1. Disable 'Prevent indexing when running on battery power to conserve energy'':

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    For me, I believe all three were necessary to work around this problem.

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  3. 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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  4. Anonymous
    2022-03-21T21:23:59+00:00

    This solved my problem but I can't figure out why indexing keeps pausing. Anyone know?

    Jeff

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  5. Anonymous
    2022-01-13T07:05:58+00:00

    Same problem here ;) Rebuilding index, changing location, turning in backoff indexing - nothing works.

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