Vista - Vista ultimate indexing not starting

Hi..

I try to start up the indexing service, but it won't start.

I cannot start it in the Control Panel or in the Windows Explorer

The event list tells a story of a bad database file.
The following message is given: (My own translation)
Windows Search-service cannot set up the search index. System Index,
internal error <4, 0x8004117f, cannot add project
C:\ProgramData\Microsoft\Search\data\Applications\Windows\Project>

In an other event it says:
The Windows Search-service cannot open Jet-properties storage...
It too mention the 0x8004117f error...

It also says that sometimes it is necessary to delete the content index and
restore it.
But I cannot do that from the Control Panel applet. I get a message saying
that there is something worng with the database file....

Running Vista Ultimate Norwegian edition with all updates.
AVG against virus.
Malwarebytes and Windows Defender for the rest...

I have not tried to restore the system to an earlier point, because this
problem surfaced long before the oldest restore point in the list....

How can this be fixed?


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Kind regards
Øyvind Granberg

tresfjording@xxxxxx
www.tresfjording.com