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I am trying to reduce the cloud dependency of my Win 11 25H2 26200.8117 installation. I am sure there are tutorials in this forum to do this. Can someone please point me in the right direction? Thanks a lot

Hi again to all In the meantime I have used Claude AI to put together a PS script which seems to work quite well to monitor progress of Windows Indexing and to see whether it is progressing normally. #Requires -RunAsAdministrator <# .SYNOPSIS Windows 11 25H2 Search Indexing Progress Monitor...

I am trying to build a small dashboard (with the help of Claude AI, as I am not a PowerShell programmer) to display Number of files indexed Number of files pending to be indexed Number of files processed per minute Estimated time to completion File currently being indexed (so I can see which...

Win 11 25H2, Outlook 365: I have tried to follow the linked article to exclude indexing of Public Folders, but I cannot expand the Outlook entry in indexing options to do so. Am I missing something here?

Thanks guys, my concerns are gone re. the location of Documents etc. folders.

I have reset my indexing and search and now Windows indexed Start Menu and my User folder. I guess this is ok when my Documents, Music, Pictures and Videos folder are located there (as they are by default after a clean install). However mine are located on a large D:\ drive (which since has...

DISM /Online /CLEANUP-IMAGE /RestoreHealth and press Enter. When that finishes type SFC /scannow and press Enter. This ran through ok, but the error message persisted. I managed to solve the issue by copying the C:\Windows\Policy Definitions folder from a working machine to the troubled...

this is what I did: FOR %F IN ("%SystemRoot%\servicing\Packages\Microsoft-Windows-GroupPolicy-ClientTools-Package~*.mum") DO (DISM /Online /NoRestart /Add-Package:"%F") FOR %F IN ("%SystemRoot%\servicing\Packages\Microsoft-Windows-GroupPolicy-ClientExtensions-Package~*.mum") DO (DISM /Online...

There are 222 Files in C:\Windows\PolicyDefinitions The content of AccountNotifications.admx is <?xml version="1.0" encoding="utf-8"?> <!-- (c) 2015 Microsoft Corporation --> <policyDefinitions xmlns:xsd="http://www.w3.org/2001/XMLSchema" xmlns:xsi="http://www.w3.org/2001/XMLSchema-instance"...

Thanks a lot Thierry. The batch file ran through, but I am still getting the following error message:

I should have known better. I tried to manually install gpedit on a Win 11 Home laptop. The install did not run through completely and left me with a gpedit that throws up error messages about missing components when it tries to launch. So next I upgraded Win 11 Home to Pro, hoping that gpedit...

The issue seems to have been that I used the commands in a batch file. Using them in an elevated PowerShell7 box (without any quotes in the command) works reliably.

Thanks guys for all your tips. I will look at those 3rd party search engines. For the time being I have put together a "indexing deep reset" batch from several web sources and things seem back to normal for windows indexing. The batch needs to be run as admin. Sc config wsearch start=disabled...

It doesn't look like Everything can search Outlook pst files, which is a must for me.

Thanks @pepanee Disabling SearchEngine-Client-Package worked. Then did a restart. but dism /Online /Enable-Feature /FeatureName:"SearchEngine-Client-Package" gave the following result: C:\Windows\System32>dism /Online /Enable-Feature /FeatureName:"SearchEngine-Client-Package" Deployment Image...