Removal of icons from search results

[MSM]

I have a Windows Vista in my Dell laptop.

A curious thing happened when I was looking for a movie file, for example,
*.mpeg in the search box in the c:/ drive. And it came up with icons of my
old mpeg videos that I deleted earlier. Even when you expand the icons to
see the picture of the video you can see it but deleting will give me a
message that says it's no long in that file location even though when I do
the search those old video files come up. How do I get rid of those video
files that are not there but the search result shows them?

 

[Ramesh, MS-MVP]

This happens if the Indexing Catalog is not up to date. Rebuilding the Index should resolve the problem. See:

Deleted files are shown when performing a search in Windows Vista:
http://www.winhelponline.com/blog/deleted-files-shown-in-search-vista/

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Regards,

Ramesh Srinivasan, Microsoft MVP [Windows Shell/User]
The Winhelponline Blog: http://www.winhelponline.com/blog
Windows® Troubleshooting: http://www.winhelponline.com

I have a Windows Vista in my Dell laptop.

A curious thing happened when I was looking for a movie file, for example,
*.mpeg in the search box in the c:/ drive. And it came up with icons of my
old mpeg videos that I deleted earlier. Even when you expand the icons to
see the picture of the video you can see it but deleting will give me a
message that says it's no long in that file location even though when I do
the search those old video files come up. How do I get rid of those video
files that are not there but the search result shows them?