How To: Rebuild The Search Index In Windows Vista To Improve Instant Search
Windows Vista maintains an index of your computer’s files in order to make searches faster.It is quite possible that your Windows Vista search index may become corrupt or unusable.If you are encountering problems with the searching engine built into Windows Vista, your best bet is to tell the indexing service to completely rebuild the index.The steps below explain how to rebuild your search index in Windows Vista.
Follow these steps to rebuild the Windows Vista Search Index:
- Click the Windows Vista Start orb.
- Click on Control Panel.
- Click on System and Maintenance.
- Click on Indexing Options.
- Click the Advanced button.
- In the User Access Control window, click the Continue button.
- In the Advanced Option window, click the Rebuild button.
- At the prompt “Are you sure you want to rebuild the index?“, click the OK button.
Rebuilding the Windows Vista Search Index may take a long time, depending upon the size of the index file and other factors.
Note:When you perform a search in Windows Vista, files that were deleted earlier may show up in Search results because the Indexing Service needs to update its records. The time frame may vary from one system to the other. In case search still continues to show deleted files, or if it does not show files that exist in the system, the indexing service may be out of date. It maintains an index of your computer’s files in order to make searches faster. If you do a search for a specific file and it doesn’t show up, your index may need to be rebuilt.
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