emptylinks
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Hi
I've not been able to find a solution for this problem through Googling related terms. Hopefully someone here can help.
The problem: I'm running Vista Home Premium and the Start Search reveals files which have long since been deleted. For example, if I type "s" it might show "song01.mp3". When I click "open file location" it takes me to the desktop where no such file is found. It seems pointless to list files which no longer even exist and yet I cannot find a way to refresh Start Search or delete the dead links. When I click try to delete the error comes up saying "Cannot find this item".
Is there a simple solution to this? Or any way at all to have Start Search only show files which exist and, as soon as a file is deleted, have it be removed from the search results?
The strange thing is that it seems to be only a few files which have been left behind as dead links. For example, I just downloaded a random picture from Google image search, then deleted it fully, and did a search for it. Nothing. As it should be. And yet, there are still dead file links which show up in search. Does anyone know why this is?
Apologies if this has been covered before. Thanks for any help.
I've not been able to find a solution for this problem through Googling related terms. Hopefully someone here can help.
The problem: I'm running Vista Home Premium and the Start Search reveals files which have long since been deleted. For example, if I type "s" it might show "song01.mp3". When I click "open file location" it takes me to the desktop where no such file is found. It seems pointless to list files which no longer even exist and yet I cannot find a way to refresh Start Search or delete the dead links. When I click try to delete the error comes up saying "Cannot find this item".
Is there a simple solution to this? Or any way at all to have Start Search only show files which exist and, as soon as a file is deleted, have it be removed from the search results?
The strange thing is that it seems to be only a few files which have been left behind as dead links. For example, I just downloaded a random picture from Google image search, then deleted it fully, and did a search for it. Nothing. As it should be. And yet, there are still dead file links which show up in search. Does anyone know why this is?
Apologies if this has been covered before. Thanks for any help.