Vista Seach locations grayed out...

[Howard Woodard]

I've looked through quite a few of these posts but didn't find one close
enough to my issue for me to just add to the thread.

I am either getting a whole list of things that seem to have nothing to do
with my search criteria or I get nothing.

When I look at the indexed location all I see is "Offline Files" and it is
checked. Even though I have over a hundred thousand files in my user
directory (pictures and music mostly) it only shows about 2,700 as being
indexed. I click on rebuild index and it gradually re-indexes the same
2,700 files.

When I click on Show All Locations, in addition to Offline Files, I get my C
drive and my D drive but they are both grayed out. When I expand them
everything is grayed out but there are check marks in some of the
sub-directories.

Is there something that I need to do in order to enable the indexing of my
drives?

Thanks in advance,

Howard

 

[Ronnie Vernon MVP]

Howard

Open Windows Explorer. Right click the C: drive. On the General Tab, look at
the option "Index this drive for faster searching" and make sure that there
is a check mark in that option.

If it is not checked, place a check mark in that box and click Apply. You
will get a popup dialog asking if you want to Apply changes to the C:\ drive
only or Apply changes to the drive C:\, subfolders and files. select the
second option and click OK. This will take some time to complete.

If you get an error message "Error applying attributes" with a file name in
the box, simply click the "Ignore All" Button. Some system files and
utilities cannot be indexed.

Repeat the same procedure for the D:\ Drive.

After the procedure is complete, that drive should now be available in the
Indexing Options. You will need to rebuild the index again.