my hdd works fine but does not show up in device manager or in computer managements. Shows up in explorer. The led also blinks ocassionally. Asus motherboard, Seagate 1T hdd. Windows XP sp3. Indexing is turned off. Partitioning and formatting was done with Partition Wizard v7. Could someone...
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While trying to add folders to the Search Index, I was informed the Windows Search process was not started. When I go to the Services Console and attempt to manually start, I am given the error:
"Windows could not start the Windows Search service on Local Computer.
Error 2: The system cannot...
Hi. I have been googling and digging thru responses but i cant find an answer to this problem. Ever since I got this computer, I believe the hd has just constantly been reading. It's not extreme reading, just subtle clickclick every quarter second or so.
I did a fresh install of w7 x64 just...
My HD usage is almost constantly at 100% making my brand new laptop pause when typing every few seconds.
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I5 w/12GB RAM
2 months old
I tried a clean retail install of windows 8 pro, and without any other installed programs problem existed.
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I would like to Querying the Index Programmatically (Windows) and I found this link that shows
several ways to do it. Basically, I have hundreds of ten-digit numbers and about 300
excel documents. I want to know which documents contain which numbers. I don't care if the
output goes to a terminal...
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Is there a way to set icons to their basic picture so that they don't change when windows reads them. For example, when windows indexes, or whatever it does, some movie, it changes media player icon to first frame of that movie. I don't have a problem with movies, but it changing Autocad...
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Something that has been bugging me is that Windows 8 on my new computer is slow opening files and folders.
I don't mean that it takes forever but when I click on almost anything in File Manager or on my desktop the waiting icon appears and it takes a couple of seconds for anything to...
After thinking that I'd fixed an error in the PrecisionX program for my new GPU, I find that it is not fixed. While looking to see that it was installed properly, I now find that all of my programs, including every game from Steam, is installed on both the SSD and the HDD. How did I mess up like...
I have tried everything; Rebuilding the search index, enabling and disabling windows searching under Features, and restarting my computer over and over after making changes but I cannot get the start search bar to return any results.
For example, I have a .exe file on my desktop called...
I have an extra logical drive (separate from C: ) that holds my personal data, you know, pictures, home videos, personal documents etc. This drive, E:, has for the last year or so always shown up in explorer with red a red disk space indicator bar. (There was about 20GB of free space left)...
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Dear Forum,
I would welcome some help with the search. I have tried a number of things with this and it doesn't work.
Windows 7 Home Premium Sp1
This is what happens now:-
Control panel indexing options. Indexing in progress. O items indexed.
I now click pause to stop wasting resources.
I...
I secure deleted some files - nothing very sensitive - but pointers remained to the files - i.e.:
f:\\\5545.jpg - etc.
Everything on my C:\ drive had hidden links that simply would not delete. Turned off the Firewall - AntiVirus - cleaned the MFT - everything and it would not go away. Then I...
Hi, I have one problem with my PC. With windows search function I cant find any file. I only finde programs but not file... I trie to fix this problem in indexing options, but somthing wrong with options (see photo). Can somone tel me how to fix this problem?
Link Removed
Fixed cosmetic issue with search results that have a title that contains unicode characters
Better handling of non-standard latin characters (makes German, Spanish, Swedish and Norwegian work without needing setting)
Changed how delta indexes are threaded within distributed indexes
Fixed issue...
Hi There
I am having a very weird problem that started suddenly
Im using windows 7 since beta stages and it was perfect untill now :(
Each time i enter a folder the green bar on the adress bar starts to run slowly like something is being indexed or read...
the files all become (in use) so i...
"Sphinx is the system that very high traffic sites use to handle searching (it can handle millions of searches per day across billions of documents) without any problems. Sites like Craigslist, Slashdot and WordPress all use Sphinx for their search. Offloading searches from your database...
I am having a problem with Windows 7 search when searching for emails:
1)When searching for an outlook email in the "instant search" bar in Outlook, the results are as expected (many results are displayed for the search term)
2) However, when searching from a search box using the exact same...
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This is my first post but I have been reading the forums for a while already.
I am puzzled by how to search for special characters in W7. I have some files that start with the Greek letter µ but I don't seem to find a way to make WS recognize characters like these for searches. When I...
I've made sure that the file typoe that I'm searching is included in the searches, I've indexed search on my computer to make sure everything is inluded but it's still not finding what I'm looking for. I'm searching for an image file(.png) that I know is on my computer(and I have several of...