Same here. We switched to Filelocator Pro. Which is lightning fast and works quite well with Outlook.
Indexing Broken in Windows 11 (Painfully Slow At Best)
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Anonymous
Hello
I have upgraded to Windows 11 Pro on two different laptops, and both have the same issue with indexing. It is painfully slow and then usually resets itself after a couple of weeks.
Both PCs are high-end laptops with Core i9 mobile CPUs (1 x 6 core and the other 8 core). Both run 2 x NVMe 1TB drives. Both have 64GB RAM.
Both run MS Office and I use Outlook for email connected to same IMAP accounts on both. My docs, pics, music and work-related files are all stored on OneDrive and accessed from both PCs (OneDrive is set to keep local copies on both PCs for fast access).
Windows is being asked to index around 250,000 files and 80,000 emails and calendar appts. Windows 10 used to accomplish this task in 6-8 hours max.
Windows 11 takes nearly two days just to index the emails. It can take up to three weeks to index the lot and then some folders simply refuse to be indexed. Then, after a couple more weeks it will eventually lose the lot and indexing has to start from scratch again (on both PCs)
I have tried:
Disabling backoff via registry so indexing never pauses
Only adding one location at a time to let it slowly build up (e.g., add only Outlook and when that finishes add a folder)
Rebuilding the index
Storing the index in different location
Search and Indexing Trouble-shooter
Nothing fixes the issue
Any help appreciated.
Cheers
Mick
Windows for home | Windows 11 | Files, folders, and storage
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Anonymous
2022-02-26T12:53:03+00:00 It seems that this workaround is not working any more :(
I did it ca. 2 months ago, everything was fine until yesterday, when indexing went mad again. So I did the steps again.
After the installation, indexing started fast, but after ca. 10 hours it was still working and got painfully slow.
I stopped indexing and pushed 'rebuild' with only drive 'C' selected. Again, it started fast, but after a few hours it got very slow. I do not think it will ever finish, not speaking about indexing the rest of my drives as well as Outlook.
Btw, in the indexed locations menu, there are two items I cannot remove: 'DesktopBackgound' and 'Start Menu' (see picture attached). It was the same before, but now I have the feeling that maybe theese have also something to do with the indexing issue. Is it the same for everyone or you can empty the list completely?
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Anonymous
2022-02-25T23:49:49+00:00 As I stated above, the Product Group ("PG") must recode this module. End of story. Nothing should work like this or take such an effort to remediate. I build software and firmware for the gaming industry and I can tell you, this is broken.
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Anonymous
2022-02-25T23:22:15+00:00 It's really getting quite bad. I've done the reinstall OS fix a couple of times, but Windows eventually is unable to keep up with the indexing. Now I more or less have to accept my CPU spiking to 60-70 degrees and staying there for long periods (hours) of time with fans at full blast while the indexing update process completes.
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Anonymous
2022-02-25T00:21:46+00:00 Same here. MS needs to get this to the PG and rebuild the service. This is a big issue for anyone in an enterprise environment with large ost DBs.