Solved Index Not Running Possible Solution

This is my first post to hello to all

I have read a few threads on hear from people whose Vista indexing file is not running...often after such things as adding an external hard drive and allowing indexing on it...

For a while now my wifes laptop (Vista Premium) has been running very slowly...after a number of looks at why this is I happened to notice the indexing file on my laptop was about 60,000 records and on hers 2.8 million!

Had a proper look at her computer after reading through non running indexing file solutions, tried to set up the index to automatic but noticed it already was...

So then had a look at services and noticed it was still starting...waited a VERY longtime and eventually it managed to read through the entire mahoosive index and start the service...then I stopped the computer indexing her hard drive and just left the startup services indexing and redid the index file...

It reduced the file to a normal amount and voila...indexing started up on reboot no problems and computer much quicker...

Now there may of course on occasions be other reasons for the indexing file to fail...but for info, here is a definite other potential reason and a lot easier than reinstalling Vista to correct...

Thanks, Chris.

Hello MutantCav, and welcome to Vista Forums!

Thank you so much for posting that, and may you enjoy your time here!

Richard

Thanks Richard...I'm sure I will

Actually just found out that now there is also a much quicker and easier solution...

Install Windows Search 4.0 from the microsoft website...or Service Pack 2 for Vista which includes it.

This will re create the index file in the process of installation and in addition is much quicker apparently than version 3 Works a treat, speeding up the whole computer no end...