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| Guest | Vista Search/Index not running Hi, my vista Home Premium has yet again got the index/search not working. Start/Control panel/ Index Options, gives me a dialogue box that says the index is not running and all the other functions are greyed out. I have had this before and found that I had to reinstall Vista (a fix was expected early 08) I believe it is being caused by my external hard drive being removed and the drive no longer is available to the Index?. I have tried the "0 in SetupCompletedSuccessfully" fix, and copying the gathrprm.txt and schema.txt files to the configure Folder. I have a Sony VGN-FZ11z fully updated with Vista Home Premium. I really don’t want to reinstall again, can anyone PLEASE help. Thank |
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| Guest | RE: Vista Search/Index not running Ensure that these are the services are running and set on Automatic: Windows Search, Remote Procedure Call (RPC), DCOM Server Process Launcher. Rebuild Index. -- http://www.WinVistaClub.com |
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| Guest | RE: Vista Search/Index not running Hi, RPC, DCOM & Windows Search all on auto, but the Windows search service will not start. A dialogue box come up: "Windows could not start the Windows search service on Local Computer" Error 3: The system could not find the path specified, when I select start. Help!!!! & thanks. HappyAndyK" wrote:
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| Administrator ![]() Rep Power: 150 ![]() ![]() ![]() ![]() ![]() ![]() ![]() ![]() ![]() ![]() ![]() | Re: Vista Search/Index not running
Leave the service set as Automatic, then follow these steps here. When done, restart the computer. It should start the service and the Index. Index - Windows Search Service Shawn | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||
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| Guest | Re: Vista Search/Index not running Hi Shawn, sorry this is the first chance Ive had to try the links suggestions! Ive followed the instructions to the letter, but still no joy! The only diffrence my system had to the instructions were, I didnt have an Applications folder. I have added one to the Data folder now. Thanks Mike "brink" wrote:
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| Administrator ![]() Rep Power: 150 ![]() ![]() ![]() ![]() ![]() ![]() ![]() ![]() ![]() ![]() ![]() | Re: Vista Search/Index not running
I'm sorry to hear that it did not help you. You can do a System Restore using a restore point dated before the problem started. System Restore - How to If that still does not help, then you can do a Repair install. This will allow you to repair your Vista installation and keep your user account files, settings, and programs. Repair Install For Vista Shawn | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||
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| Guest | Re: Vista Search/Index not running Hi, I ended up reinstalling Vista. What a hassel. So, my final question is, should I not have enable the indexing on my external hard drive?. Is it possible that by doing so, it had messed up the indexing? Thanks Mike "Brink" wrote:
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| Administrator ![]() Rep Power: 150 ![]() ![]() ![]() ![]() ![]() ![]() ![]() ![]() ![]() ![]() ![]() | Re: Vista Search/Index not running If you leave it connected and on with the computer on, I do not see how it could hurt anything. It may have errored out after the index tried to run when it was not connected. To be safe, I would leave the external drive off the added index locations and use the non-indexed search when doing searches on it. Shawn |
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| Guest | Re: Vista Search/Index not running Thanks for that, yes i will remember that for the future. thanks for your time and help Mike "Brink" wrote:
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