Go to the link below and find out how to get Search back where it was before
SP1
http://msmvps.com/blogs/bradley/arch...arch-back.aspx
"akita" <akita@xxxxxx> wrote in message
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> Since a few days Vista inexplicably loses my search index - and I have no
> idea what causes this!
>
> This is soooooooooo annoying!!
>
> Every time I want the index to help me search for files, I find it has
> reverted to its default options (which do not include my folders), and I
> need
> to again manually add the folders that I want in the index. This causes
> Vista
> to rebuild its search index, taking an hour or more!
>
> In effect, Vista's much touted search functionality has become utterly
> useless to me!
>
> Can anyone tell me what would cause such a behaviour whereby Vista resets
> indexed locations to its few (and so very limited) default indexing
> folders?
>
> I run Vista Ultimate and upgraded to SP1 (the recent RTM release) with no
> other search provider installed. Though regarding the latter, if I can't
> get
> Vista's native search indexing back to normal, I might as well make use of
> SP1's feature whereby I can kick out Vista's search functionality and use
> Google's, or whatever - not a preferred option, but better than no
> indexing!!
>
>
> Thanks for all help and advice.