Vista - Index - Windows Search Service

Simon,

You might try doing one of these before having to do a clean reinstall to see if they can fix the problems for you.

1. System Restore using a restore point dated before the problem.
System Restore - How to

or

2. Repair (upgrade) install.
Repair Install For Vista

Hope this helps,
Shawn

Right, I'd have to uninstall SP1 and all. I'm not sure what's the best, guess I could use a clean reinstall to start anew anyway.

Probably a dumb question, but would the errors disappear if I just disabled search indexing? Since this whole search indexing thing is only related to searching and I never use the search feature, I would be more or less unaffected if I disabled the indexing, correct? Because as it is now, removing or moving any file, no matter how small, takes several seconds and brings up the transfer window telling you time left and so on.
Basically I don't care about searching for files. Would completely disabling search indexing stop the errors from coming?
And if yes, I'd really appreciate help on how I should go about doing that. Thanks for your help so far.

Simon,

It would be worth a try to just disable the Index to see.

Shawn

Yeah well I managed to disable the search indexer.
At first I disabled it for C: only, but that didn't help, so I googled another tutorial which told me to write services.msc in the searchbar, as opposed to only services (which I had tried writing oh so many times, but to no avail). When I added .msc I finally got into the service-manager, or whatever it's called. From here I disabled search indexing, but when I continued on the next step of the guide (going to control panel->indexing options) I got stumped again, since everything was greyed out in indexing options. But no matter. I'll just keep it disabled as it is now.

Anyway, thanks for trying, Brink. I really appreciate it.

That's ok Simon. If you stopped and disabled the Windows Search service, then the Index will be completely disabled.

Index - Enable or Disable

Shawn

It did the trick for me,
what to say,
MAAAANY THANKS!!!!!

Your welcome cmatte, and welcome to Vista Forums.

Shawn

I kept on getting this error over and over, but fixed (resintalled) it with your help. Thanks!

Faulting application SearchIndexer.exe, version 7.0.6001.16503, time stamp 0x483b99af, faulting module TQUERY.DLL, version 7.0.6001.16503, time stamp 0x483b9a35, exception code 0xc0000005, fault offset 0x00034001, process id 0xd3c, application start time 0x01c8f176d47869b5.

Your welcome Veener, and welcome to Vista Forums.

Shawn

thank you all for the help topics regarding this problem. Unfortunately I have followed every step of the way and I still see the grey buttons.

I still recieve the message when I try to start the service -2147218141. Is there anything else I can do ?

all microsoft services are running and security software ie. antivirus is disabled.