Rebuild Search Index in Windows 10  

FILKOSKI said:

Dear Brink , please help !

I had reading too much posts and tutorials from you . Manu many thinks I had learn for Windows Im learning just from your tutorials. Manu thans for you. Now I need to ask you about big problem I have a long time ago. Windows will finish with indexing - normally , but after every few days will start indexing again and again. And it takes a lot of time indexing (2-3 hours). Location that I have choosen for indexing containt about 160.000 files . I beleive Its no normal ? Really I dont like to re-install Windows. Please give me some advise before need to reinstalling. Also I have MS Outlook 2010. I delete my ".ost" file and have download fresh one. Plese help.
I have Windows 10 Home version 1903 , OS Build 18362.356

Thaks everyone

Hello FILKOSKI,

This is normal for the search index to update itself on a schedule by automatically rebuilding.

It takes a long time to finished since it runs slowly as a background process so as not to slow down the computer instead of running fast and hogging all the computer's resources.

If you don't use or need the index, you could disable it. You will still be able to search as usual, but it may take a bit longer for search results without the index.

FILKOSKI said:

Really thank you Brink.

You're most welcome.

Steven Campoli said:

I have a question, I notice that start menu and users keep disappearing, so I rebuilt the index, they came back, I reboot and they disappear again.. how can I fix this?

Hello Steven,

Do you mean that Start menu and users keep disappearing from search results?

If so, you could disable search indexing to always have accurate search results since you don't have to worry about the index being up to date or not.

Enable or Disable Search Indexing in Windows

Steven Campoli said:

What I meant was when I open indexing options, included locations like start menu and users are not their

Could be a glitch since they come back after rebuilding the index.

Double check to make sure both Start Menu (C:\ProgramData\Microsoft\Windows\Start Menu) and Users are still checked in your "Indexed Locations".

Add or Remove Search Index Locations in Windows 10

Steven Campoli said:

I’ve added them manually, still after reboot my indexed locations are empty

A few questions for troubleshooting:

Any chance of being sign in to a temporary or guest account for the changes to not remain after a reboot? Does the same happen if you sign out and in?

Did you move these locations from their default locations?

Any 3rd party software installed that could be causing issues with this?