Indexing problems Outlook - Windows 11

Anonymous
2021-12-06T08:01:16+00:00

I have updated to windows 11 and my outlook is continually trying to index and is paused alot.

I have installed all updates.

It gets to over 200,000 items indexed then pauses and starts again.

Can you please help with this problem

Thank yo

Dean

Outlook | Windows | Classic Outlook for Windows | For home

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  1. Anonymous
    2022-03-11T18:19:18+00:00

    Windows 11 is **** and not worth the hype. Outlook 2019 indexing is super slow and gets paused automatically after every few minutes. Why isnt Microsoft doing anything about it?

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  2. Anonymous
    2022-02-25T03:03:22+00:00

    I had done some addive works. I had removed the ost file and reorganised the pst file. Compressing is not really effective. I had export the entire pst file into a new one and rebound them as the accounts datafile. The pst was quite smaller and faster, because the export will not transfer all garbage who stays in the source pst file. I also remove the outlook datafile form the index service, because the published regkey does'nt solve the issue.
    The search process of the outlook content ist as fast as before. My data fiel (PST) has a size of 30Gbyte.

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  3. Anonymous
    2022-02-25T02:56:11+00:00

    I am sure that's windows Index service is the source of the issue.

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  4. Anonymous
    2022-02-24T22:43:10+00:00

    Windows 10 search should work correctly if you have the February 8th, 2022, Windows Updates. In those updates Windows reverted the changes that caused the problem.

    Windows 11 search will be fixed in the Windows 11 Public Updates on 3/15/22.

    I have been updating status in the Outlook Known Issue article, Outlook Search not showing recent emails after Windows update KB5008212 (microsoft.com).

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  5. Anonymous
    2022-02-24T22:18:12+00:00

    Hello everyone,

    I am not sure if it is W11 or outlook, but since i moved my computer back to W10 my search function / indexing has not faulted. I have several outlook files on my computer and some are over 20GB.

    I am not saying that W11 is the problem but the problems did start with the upgrade and only resolved when i went back to W10.

    Thanks

    Dean

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