I don't think that this setting is searchable. Just tried it on one of my other Win 10 machines that had no issues with the upgrade and it doesn't work on that machine either.

+1. That one doesn't come up with any results.

"We're getting search ready" will come up every time indexing is doing is thing and is supposed to go away when it's done. Since "fixing" my problem, I've seen it come up at least once when adding...

Sounds like my setup.

I tried something similar to that while searching for a solution. I stopped the service, deleted the index, flipped the flag, then restarted the service, which rebuilt the index and flipped the flag...

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Attached is a picture of what happens what I search for wallpaper.

Mine still has the outlook and internet history options available, but I don't index these. Are you saying that these items are no longer appearing in the checklist of stuff to select for indexing? ...

Hi there, answers below. These locations are more accurate (copying them exactly):

1. c:\programdata\microsoft\windows search --> what is the name of the folder I should delete there?
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I think we may have lift-off!

I think having changed my user directories was causing issues with indexing for some reason... something probably got borked when I upgraded from Win 8.1 to Win 10.
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Interesting, my user folders (Documents, Pictures, etc) are on my E: drive, while Windows is on the C: drive. I had changed my default locations.

Do you think that this is causing the problem?
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Unfortunately, this didn't fix it for me... I'm still getting the "we're getting search ready" message. Debating if I should just wipe my machine. Why can't MS give us errors that make sense?

I waited until indexing was complete to no avail. For fun, I created a new user account in case mine was corrupt, waited for that one's indexing to complete (was fast as the account has nothing) and...

Was worth a try! Unfortunately, it didn't fix it on my computer either.

I've reduced my index to just 4282 files by using the initial config - stuff like my documents to speed things up. It's...