Vista Tutorial - Index - Windows Search Service

Your welcome Tommy. I'm happy to hear that you got it sorted out and working now.

Shawn

I don't have a problem with windows search, however even with admin account there are a few files greyed out which i need to uncheck but i cannot do it - i have full control of them but still unable to do anything. I have tried resetting the indexing but no different - any advice will be much appreciated, thanks

Hi Tyler, and welcome to Vista Forums.

What are the names of the ones that you cannot uncheck?

Shawn

well after clicking all locations - C:\Users\*****\AppData\Local

And It is The hole Local folder i want unchecked but all of AppData is greyed out - I have recently uograded to vista 64bit - i did not have this problem on Vista Enterprise 32 bit, im completely stumped.

Ok Tyler,

I noticed that these are all hidden files that are grayed out. I experienced the same thing you did when I tested this, but if you uncheck C:\Users, it will uncheck the grayed out C:\Users\*****\AppData\Local one to. You will just have to check the ones you want again.

Hope this helps,
Shawn

Stunning - Got to Frustrated, didn't consider that. Thank you so Much. Wicked!!

Your welcome Tyler.

Don't feel bad. I just stumbled apon it by accident myself.

Where to start...
Great tutorial, but I can't even get past step 1.
I search for "services" and it finds it, I click it and nothing happens. I have also tried clicking Enter.

So I tried anyway, skipped that step and went ahead. Sure enough everything works a charm until I get to the part where I am to put the .txts into the Config folder (which by the way already has the two .txts there, same size as the ones I am supposed to put there and everything). But when I try to overwrite them it says I can't since they are currently in use.
Surely because I skipped step 1.

Hell, I'm not even sure this is the error I am having, but it's related to the Windows Search Indexer. The error message doesn't look like the one you showed, but that could be because I am running a swedish version of Vista.
I get the error when I move or delete a file, etc.

I'll just post the error-information if that's of any help, despite being in swedish.

Problemhändelsens namn: APPCRASH
Programnamn: SearchIndexer.exe
Programversion: 6.0.6001.18000
Programtidsstämpel: 47919483
Namn på felmodul: ntdll.dll
Modulens version: 6.0.6001.18000
Tidsstämpel för felmodul: 4791a7a6
Undantagskod: c0000005
Undantagsförskjutning: 000659c3
OS-version: 6.0.6001.2.1.0.768.3
Språkvariant-ID: 1053

I run 32bit Swedish Home Premium Vista.

Hi Simon,

Welcome to Vista Forums.

See if you can replace the TXT files while you are booted into Safe Mode. They should not be in use there. This tutorial will show you how to boot to Safe Mode if needed.

Safe Mode

Hope this helps,
Shawn

Alright, I booted in minimal safe mode, went to the folder you specificed for 32bit, copied the two .txts you specified and tried to overwrite the ones in the Config folder, and Windows still tells me they are being used "in another program" or whatever, and thus can't be replaced.
I don't think I'm doing anything wrong, either. I chose to boot in safemode through going into the msconfig and selecting boot-type, so to speak. Safe Mode and minimal.
And when I reboot the PC it says I am in safe mode, resolution's smaller, etc etc.

I am starting to consider a full-on reinstall of Vista, but it's such a pain whatwith all the drivers and programs to reinstall.