Solved Windows indexing

Bill4321 said:

Hi guys

Windows search index. Why is it so slow? Why does it never finish? I have scaled back all of the indexed locations down to 31,000 items needing indexing. Outlook and One Note are excluded from my indexing. As are XML files. I have an I7 10th Gen processor yet the indexing will only do at best 20 items a minute. So we're talking 25 hours to index the whole lot. As a one off that's fine. I know it takes time.

The thing is, when I get to the 'done' status and reboot my PC the index then shows 50 - 60 files still pending and the countdown starts again. And these files are always pending. I never get back to zero. Even though all files have been indexed.

So basically the windows search indexer is constantly using circa 15% of my processor. My first thought was to turn off the service and be done with it. The trouble is the indexer turns itself back on again. It will not be defeated.

I have tried things..

I have re built the index many times. It does not help. I have changed the location of the index but Windows ignores the new location and goes back to its default location. I have changed the 'Disablebackoff' key in the registry to always on, then off when finished. I have Googled like mad but can't get anywhere with this.

If anyone out there has any suggestions please let me know..

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Bill4321 said:

Hey Devlin

Thank you so much, that's sorted it. I'm a bit peeved off that I couldn't work out what Windows was constantly trying to index, I guess that I will have to leave that for another day.

In the meantime a big gold star for you, cheers mate.

Bill

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