Corrupt Windows earch / Indexing

[Rainald Taesler]

Someway I managed to have shreddered the Index engine necessary for
Windows Search.

The Indexing Options applet shows:
"0 elements have been indexed."

And I found no way to cure the problem.
The index engine does at all but piling up tons of error events.
The most frequent one is 3100 Gatherer (Details below). It fires almost
every 5 minutes.

Last week among others - I had the sequence of 1004, 1006, 1008, 1010,
1013.

This is just awful with a system based on indexed search.

AFAICS there will be no way about a re-install.
But I fear to loose my carefully done settings in Windows and many
applications.

Does anyone happen to know if there would be any way to re-install
"Windows Search" and Indexing separately?

Might there perhaps be a way to clear wrong things in the registry?

I already asked in the German pendent of vista.assessment, to no avail.

TIA
Rainald
(who is feeling really desperate).

FuP2 set to "vista.general"

*---

|| - System
- Provider
[ Name] Microsoft-Windows-Search
[ Guid] {CA4E628D-8567-4896-AB6B-835B221F373F}
[ EventSourceName] Windows Search Service

- EventID 3100
[ Qualifiers] 49152
Version 0
Level 2
Task 3
Opcode 0
Keywords 0x80000000000000

- TimeCreated
[ SystemTime] 2007-08-08T20:42:02.000Z
EventRecordID 16362
Correlation

- Execution
[ ProcessID] 0
[ ThreadID] 0
Channel Application
Computer Italiano
Security

- EventData
ExtraInfo Details: Dieser Vorgang wurde wegen Zeitüberschreitung
zurückgegeben. (0x800705b4)
---
My translation from German
ExtraInfo Details: This action has been returned due to timeout.
((0x800705b4)

*EoT

 

[Rainald Taesler]

Sorry, Fehler vom Amt. Sollte in Ami-NG vista-install. Ich bitte um
Nachsicht.
Aber wenn hier jemand wissen sollte, wäre ich sehr dankbar.
Rainald

Rainald Taesler shared these words of wisdom:

Someway I managed to have shreddered the Index engine necessary for
Windows Search.

The Indexing Options applet shows:
"0 elements have been indexed."

And I found no way to cure the problem.
The index engine does at all but piling up tons of error events.
The most frequent one is 3100 Gatherer (Details below). It fires
almost every 5 minutes.

Last week among others - I had the sequence of 1004, 1006, 1008,
1010, 1013.

This is just awful with a system based on indexed search.

AFAICS there will be no way about a re-install.
But I fear to loose my carefully done settings in Windows and many
applications.

Does anyone happen to know if there would be any way to re-install
"Windows Search" and Indexing separately?

Might there perhaps be a way to clear wrong things in the registry?

I already asked in the German pendent of vista.assessment, to no
avail.

TIA
Rainald
(who is feeling really desperate).

FuP2 set to "vista.general"

*---
- Provider
[ Name] Microsoft-Windows-Search
[ Guid] {CA4E628D-8567-4896-AB6B-835B221F373F}
[ EventSourceName] Windows Search Service

- EventID 3100
[ Qualifiers] 49152
Version 0
Level 2
Task 3
Opcode 0
Keywords 0x80000000000000

- TimeCreated
[ SystemTime] 2007-08-08T20:42:02.000Z
EventRecordID 16362
Correlation

- Execution
[ ProcessID] 0
[ ThreadID] 0
Channel Application
Computer Italiano
Security

- EventData
ExtraInfo Details: Dieser Vorgang wurde wegen Zeitüberschreitung
zurückgegeben. (0x800705b4)
---
My translation from German
ExtraInfo Details: This action has been returned due to timeout.
((0x800705b4)

*EoT

 

[Rainald Taesler]

brink shared these words of wisdom:

Have you already tried to Rebuild the index?

For sure (I'm have more than a year of experience with the new
Index-based search [on my old system under XP I'd been using WDS 3 from
the moment the first Beta appeared]).

The problems under Vista began when trying to repair a problem (WinMail
longer on the list of indexed items/locations)by using "Rebuild".

You can scroll down to
that section at this link below for how.

http://www.vistax64.com/tutorials/69581-indexing-options.html

Thanks for the pointer!! Nice page. Saved it in Note for further
reference.
But nothing new to me.

If you have and it is still working, you might try running the
command "sfc /scan now" in a elevated command prompt to see if it
will not repair the system files for you.

Aaaah!
Did not yet try that.
I'll run it and report back.

Here is a link for that:

Sorry, there seems to be something missing :-(
Thank you so much. At least I'm not feeling a bit less lonely than
before ;-)

Rainald

 

[Rainald Taesler]

brink shared these words of wisdom:

[broken indexing]
Been there, done so.
No change of the indexing engine's nasty behaviour :-( :-(

Something missing?

Yes. You said:
"Here is a link for that:"
and this was the end.
I thought that you had intended to add something after the ":".

Rainald

 

[Rainald Taesler]

brink shared these words of wisdom:

It was a link for how to run the "sfc /scannow".

http://www.vistax64.com/tutorials/66978-system-files.html

And for how to run the "chkdsk /f /r" . See option two step 6.

http://www.vistax64.com/tutorials/67612-checkdisk.html

If you look at the above threads, it may be there now.

Thanks for the reply, Shwan.

As said, "sfc /scannow" did not fix the problem.
And the HDD has no problem.

Any idea on what else I might try?

Rainald

 

[Rainald Taesler]

Thank you so much Shawn for staying with me!

brink shared these words of wisdom:

I suppose we can check the basics and see if the "Windows Search"
service in set to "Automatic" and is "Started". You can look at this
link for a guide for how if needed.

Both "Windows Search" and "Indexing" are set to "Automatic" and they
are started.

I tried stopping and restarting and all else possible in the Services
applet.

Rainald

 

[Rainald Taesler]

brink shared these words of wisdom:

I found something new for you to try and reset the Index. Look at
this link and scroll down to the bottom and do "Method Two" in the
"To Restore or Reset Index Default Settings". It is the manual way
of doing it.

http://www.vistax64.com/tutorials/69581-indexing-options.html

Thanks once more Shawn.

I had done that before. And I did it again. The result is still the
same.
0 items indexed.
And the Gatherer produces the Error-Event 3100 named in my initial
posting.

The Index database file patterns are in the respective directory and
subdirectory structures. All files are shown with normal file-size
(compared to the situation under XP and WDS 3.01) but the are empty
(except two small files).

I really do not know what else could be done.

Thanks again
Rainald

 

[Rainald Taesler]

brink shared these words of wisdom:

If you did the registry hack (method two)

Tried it again. To no avail.
Thy Index data structures get written anew but there's dat in them.

and it still is doing this,
then I do not know what else to do either other than reinstalling
Vista.

That's what I fear :-(
Will have to do that. But I first must investigate on how to make sure
that I will not have to re-do all of the settings.

I would just disable the Indexing Service (Windows Search)
and use the regular Search Feature in Vista instead though.

http://www.vistax64.com/tutorials/69564-indexing-service-search.html

This might be an interim solution.
But I have to the indexing/search engine back. Vista without Windows
search seems almost impossible to me - the more as I've been used to
WDS 3.x under XP for more than a year. And I urgently need it in
OneNote (where search is based on WDS/Windows Search).

Thanks again
Rainald

 

[Guest]

My computer was unable to do error checking (chkdsk) and errors began to
accumulate. System restore did not go back far enough to restore this
function. System File Check identified a corrupt system file "autochk.exe"
that sfc was unable to repair. Instead of doing a clean install, I was able
to do an Upgrade Install that preserved my programs, devices, settings, etc.
(see John Barnett Windows MVP).

I wanted to replace my corrupt system file with a good one from the Vista
Install DVD without having to do a complete install, but was unable to do
this until now. From multiple sources including contributors on Vista
Communities, Windows IT Pro, How-To Geek, and Vistax64 Forum, I have put
together a tutorial on how to access files from your Vista Install DVD that
you can use to replace corrupt files in your OS. See the link below:

http://www.vistax64.com/tutorials/86959-access-vista-install-dvd-files.html

System File Check will identify corrupt system files that it can't repair
(see CBS.log). You can replace your corrupt files with good copies from the
Vista Install DVD. Many thanks to those who contributed to this solution.