Search and Index

[Guest]

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?

 

[Andre Da Costa [Extended64]]

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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[Guest]

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

 

[Guest]

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

 

[Adahn]

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.

 

[Adahn]

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.

 

[Guest]

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.