To my surprise, both the built in memory test and Memtest86 reported memory errors.
So does Indexing do a memory check before starting?
Will replace the bad memory chip(s) and then resume following the above suggestions.
Thank you all again
The script executed fine w/o errors. But still can't enable search. Trying to start the search service gives the same error as before.
Appreciate all the efforts.
C:\WINDOWS\system32>sfc /scannow
Beginning system scan. This process will take some time.
Beginning verification phase of system scan.
Verification 100% complete.
Windows Resource Protection found corrupt files but was unable to fix some of them.
For online repairs, details are included in...
only get one one of my two machines running Win 11 (machine 2 in my specs)
Services shows Windows Search set to delayed Automatic (delayed start). When i click on start: error 3: The system cannot find the path specified.