Indexing Service: How to tell when full rescan complete

[Guest]

Using cisvc.exe in Windows XP Pro SP2 as part of an evaluation project.
Indexing Service always shows a status of "Started" or "Paused," never
"Stopped." I started the first full rescan on this machine - (just a basic
installation of XP in a VM - no apps) - about 20 hours ago. It appears to
still be indexing, but it's impossible to tell. Task Mgr shows cpu usage by
cisvc.exe as 0. But the "docs to be indexed" number continues to change
dynamically - intermittently.

The Application log shows that a master merge completed about 12 hours after
I started the full rescan.

Background: Logged on as local Administrator before running the first
rescan, I created two 54-byte documents in C:\Test, each containing the same
phrase. The administrator has full rights to both files. So the Indexing
Service Query Form tool should return both files when searching on the same
phrase in quotes using the Advanced Search option when logged on as local
admin. It does not. It is still only showing one file in the results. I
originally thought this was because Ci was not completed. Now I think it's
just the query tool being flaky again. My results thus far testing this query
tool and Cisvc.exe have been incredibly inconsistent.

Anyone have any success with the query tool? Has anyone ever seen the
Indexing Service status show "Stopped" (or otherwise indicate it has
completed a scan)?

TIA,
Susie

 

[Guest]

Ah...I think I figured this out. A status of "Stopped" would indicated that
the service itself is stopped, not the indexing (scanning). If you do a
manual scan, the status should (but doesn't always) show "Scanning." It
appears that when the status goes from "Scanning" to "Started," the scan is
completed. But no guarantees. And the scan can take hours....

Still getting inconsistent results using the Indexing Service Query Form. If
anyone else has seen the same, please feel free to let me know. Thanks.