Search and Index

My searching capabilities do not work at all. When I open the search program
from control panel, it says "Waiting for status update..." all the time, and
Modify and Advanced are disabled. I think this happened after I enabled two
of the options, I think one of them had something to do with 'diacritics'? Is
there a registry key I can change or something I can do to get search working
again?

I would go to the root of the drive and click Add to Index on the Menu Bar
and see if it indexes the entire system.
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"StormChaser" <StormChaser@discussions.microsoft.com> wrote in message
news:68636D82-1CDB-421A-ACFD-738AE3C6CE13@microsoft.com...
> My searching capabilities do not work at all. When I open the search
> program
> from control panel, it says "Waiting for status update..." all the time,
> and
> Modify and Advanced are disabled. I think this happened after I enabled
> two
> of the options, I think one of them had something to do with 'diacritics'?
> Is
> there a registry key I can change or something I can do to get search
> working
> again?

Nope, nothing happens. Is there anywhere in the registry that I can go to
change those options that I enabled?

"Andre Da Costa [Extended64]" wrote:

> I would go to the root of the drive and click Add to Index on the Menu Bar
> and see if it indexes the entire system.
> --
> Andre
> Extended64 | http://www.extended64.com
> Blog | http://www.extended64.com/blogs/andre
> http://spaces.msn.com/members/adacosta
> FAQ for MS AntiSpy http://www.geocities.com/marfer_mvp/FAQ_MSantispy.htm
>
> "StormChaser" <StormChaser@discussions.microsoft.com> wrote in message
> news:68636D82-1CDB-421A-ACFD-738AE3C6CE13@microsoft.com...
> > My searching capabilities do not work at all. When I open the search
> > program
> > from control panel, it says "Waiting for status update..." all the time,
> > and
> > Modify and Advanced are disabled. I think this happened after I enabled
> > two
> > of the options, I think one of them had something to do with 'diacritics'?
> > Is
> > there a registry key I can change or something I can do to get search
> > working
> > again?
>
>
>

Anybody have any answers? I can't do anything that requires search right now
and I'd really like to get this fixed.

"StormChaser" wrote:

> Nope, nothing happens. Is there anywhere in the registry that I can go to
> change those options that I enabled?
>
> "Andre Da Costa [Extended64]" wrote:
>
> > I would go to the root of the drive and click Add to Index on the Menu Bar
> > and see if it indexes the entire system.
> > --
> > Andre
> > Extended64 | http://www.extended64.com
> > Blog | http://www.extended64.com/blogs/andre
> > http://spaces.msn.com/members/adacosta
> > FAQ for MS AntiSpy http://www.geocities.com/marfer_mvp/FAQ_MSantispy.htm
> >
> > "StormChaser" <StormChaser@discussions.microsoft.com> wrote in message
> > news:68636D82-1CDB-421A-ACFD-738AE3C6CE13@microsoft.com...
> > > My searching capabilities do not work at all. When I open the search
> > > program
> > > from control panel, it says "Waiting for status update..." all the time,
> > > and
> > > Modify and Advanced are disabled. I think this happened after I enabled
> > > two
> > > of the options, I think one of them had something to do with 'diacritics'?
> > > Is
> > > there a registry key I can change or something I can do to get search
> > > working
> > > again?
> >
> >
> >

Is the Windows Search Engine service running?

Search is bugged to hell - never worked 100% right with me on any Vista
installation since build 5219, but you could try a clean reinstallation and
see.

Is the Windows Search Engine service running?

Search is bugged to hell - never worked 100% right with me on any Vista
installation since build 5219, but you could try a clean reinstallation and
see.

Yes, the service is running. I even tried uninstalling/reinstalling search
from the Windows Features under programs in the control panel, but didn't
help. I just did a fresh reinstall like 2 weeks ago, and as soon as I set
that setting, it stopped working. UGH.

"Adahn" wrote:

> Is the Windows Search Engine service running?
>
> Search is bugged to hell - never worked 100% right with me on any Vista
> installation since build 5219, but you could try a clean reinstallation and
> see.
>
>