wynand32

Thanks, but I've tried all that. The Index Service say it's finished at 134K+
documents, and all of the "right" folders are selected (or, in this case,
PST's, because there's no option that I can see to select folders within a
PST).

Seems like there's just some work to do on the indexer. It's a bummer, too,
because search is one of the things I like best about Vista. Unfortuntely, it
MUST be 100% accurate to be effective for how I use it...

"Tom Porterfield" wrote:

> wynand32 wrote:
> > I've discovered that Vista searches don't tend to return all results; so
> > far, I've found this predominantly in Outlook (2007, if that matters).
> > I've run tests where I've searched for known emails (known because I'm
> > basing the search on their contents), and search isn't displaying them.
> >
> > As far as I can tell, there isn't any special about the emails, and I
> > haven't had the time to try to find a document that search doesn't locate.
> > Obviously, it was only by random chance that I found some emails that
> > search doesn't locate.
> >
> > Anyone have any ideas?
>
> Vista by default searches its index. So possibilities are that the indexer
> hasn't completed indexing everything, or the e-mails are in a folder that
> the indexer isn't looking at. If you want to modify the index locations,
> follow these steps:
>
> 1. Open Indexing and Search Options by clicking the Start button , clicking
> Control Panel, clicking System and Maintenance, and then clicking Indexing
> Options.
>
> 2. Click Modify.
>
> 3. To add a location, select its check box in the Change selected locations
> list, and then click OK.
>
> If you don't see all of the locations on your computer in the Change
> selected locations list, click Show all locations. If you are prompted for
> an administrator password or confirmation, type the password or provide
> confirmation.
>
> If you want to include a folder but not all of its subfolders, expand the
> folder, and then clear the check box next to any folder you don't want to
> index. These folders will appear in the Exclude column of the Summary of
> selected locations list.
>
> --
> Tom Porterfield
>
>