Indexing problems Outlook - Windows 11

Hi Gabriel,

I can confirm that the indexing issue is still not fixed as of April 1 2022. I still have to manually click start and stop on services for the indexing to work.

Thank you.

Amanda Corea

The latest update to Win11 released yesterday I thought was supposed to fix this issue. Have now installed update and waiting now to see if it’s made much difference. Outlook search index is still not moving apart from adding more items to the list waiting to be indexed. Win search is continuing to index but only managing a couple of items a second which is barely faster than what it was doing before - managed to index 50k items but taken nearly 24hrs to do that!!

i have same issue with my outlook, it asks to rebuild indexing every week, and it's taking more than 24hrs to complete indexing and when it reach 300,000 it pauses and asks to start over.

I don't use Outlook but I did have the same problems with indexing that many others mention.

My solution is to close everything that is open and Restart.

When has started, then type 'indexing' into settings or control panel and open.

Then you will see the indexing take place by the file count increasing.

Don't interrupt by doing anything else (including allowing your PC to sleep or hybernate) until it says it has completed.

Repeat this before every time you want to do a search.

I am a 70 y.o. computer user, never trained in IT. I scratched my head about the search results many times before I stumbled on this solution, as ridiculous as it is.

From DOS through to Windows 10, indexing has never been a problem. Windows XP had the best search features.

Under Windows 11, even searching by a range of dates is complex. Computers are supposed to save us work and frustration.

Why does Microsoft remove wonderfully useful and satisfying features every time it puts out a new Windows?

I am appreciate for the information - thanks a lot. All other works needs do be done by the R&D.