Search Indexer Always Resetting

Good you found a solution.

So that would suggest you added something to what's indexed that isn't helpful... if so, that would be why it's not a general problem.

First run chkdsk as I described to eliminate file system errors.

Then if still problems, follow a, b.

The solution was to
a. Identify what was being indexed that caused the problem
b. Remove that location from those being indexed.

The event log should contain some helpful info as per post #6,7 as example.


(Of course, you could just try removing things from the list being indexed. (Indexing Options, Modify) to try to identify the approximate area where the possibly corrupt file exists).

"First run chkdsk as I described to eliminate file system errors."
I reinstalled the computer before

I cannot interpret this in a manner relevant to your question.

a. I do not know the time relationship between you reinstalling and this problem occurring.
b. I do not know if your disk is good
c. You may have data on a different disk or partition other than C: which is causing this problem.

pepanee said:

I found the general location of where this file is; it is located in the WinSxS folder within Windows. I Excluded the WinSxS folder from being Indexed. Now the Search Indexing Options is complete, and not re-/creating the Index like it always was doing. Also, it's useless to have WinSxS indexed anyways; there are no personal files in there that would have a possibility for me to look for them.

Cool. I nailed it.

Hİ "WinSxS" I wonder how you ruled it out

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dalchina said:

I cannot interpret this in a manner relevant to your question.

a. I do not know the time relationship between you reinstalling and this problem occurring.
b. I do not know if your disk is good
c. You may have data on a different disk or partition other than C: which is causing this problem.

a. This problem has been going on for 1 year.
b. i will do chkdsk
c. presents on system c disk.
data available on 2. harddisk (outlook .pst,5 pieces, total 182 GB)
your answers are very important to me

Once you have run chkdsk on all disks/partitions:

To find the problem file (if there is one): use the event log - as mentioned in earlier posts.
Those refer to 'ESENT' and 'searchindexer'.

Can you see them now?

An easy way to do this is to get Fulleventlogview (free):
https://www.nirsoft.net/utils/full_event_log_view.html

Run that, wait for it to load events, then search for searchindexer.

This is my current Search Indexer settings:



azizler07: I looked through the Event Viewer and visually skimmed through the recent logs related to the Search Indexer. I found a log that the Search Indexer was stating that a file in the WinSxS folder that has been causing the Search Indexer to delete the database and rebuild it. I don't remember the exact message that the log said, but I remember that the log stated that the Search Indexer file will be erased and re-created.

(The 3 other exclusions that are listed in the picture were already default settings. Hence I did not erase those folders from the exclusions list)

1) Go to the Search Indexer
2) Press Modify
3) Click the small arrow next to your C drive
4) Go look for WinSxS
5) Uncheck it