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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
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That is the point Suzham. We are supposed to wake up, eat breakfast and then run regedit and dig into registry only to be able to search contents that day, which is vital for our jobs? Time is money and I calculated that this stunts with registry would eat my time, a lot. Far more than the price of a notebook. As I said, I've bought new notebook with Win10 months ago and have no problem with searching contents, indexing.... And I keep following this thread, hoping to hear Great news.
Hi Mick
As we all keep saying in the longest thread of Windows disasters threads apparently there is no solution that really fixes this indexing problem.
We all have tried hard and many solutions offered but none works well or permanently.
The only thing I feel sorry for is that I cannot sue Microsoft as the legal terms of use of their software are very well and carefully written.
Dr. Paulo Maia Gonçalves
Maipor International Lawyers
PhD in European Union Commercial and Penal Law.
Here's the problem Greg...Why do I need to read 8 non Microsoft websites and watch a youtube video to fix a problem that wasn't broken in Windows 10 or Windows 8 or Windows XP or any previous version of Windows. I appreciate your trying to help.....I really do. But the answer I'm looking for is that Microsoft will fix this in the next Windows 11 Version.
If there was a July fix shouldn’t the early-access people have seen it by now?
Just for irony, I’m pretty sure those entries are to help with diagnostics and tuning of the indexer.
