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    Windows 10 Windows 10 Searching for file is slow in NAS

    Hi All Expert, Good Day. I have a user which when she search for file/doc in server network NAS is very slow, but other users pc was fast. But when she search for file/doc on her whole C drive was slow but still fine, I would like to check if indexing help to solve the slowness in searching...
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    Windows 10 cant search within files

    hi, im having problems searching within files in win10. ive tried indexing the directory, adding the extension and clicking the search within files tab but it doesnt work. any suggestions?
  3. Windows 10 Intentionally breaking Windows 10 Search Bar

    Hey there, I'm an IT Technician at a secondary school currently setting up Windows 10 for our students. Currently they're all using 7 and we have a pre-configured image which we roll out to all our computers using pxe, this is set up with many pre-installed programs and settings. We're...
  4. Windows 10 Windows search misses really obvious results

    Consider an example directory containing: IMG_0209.JPG IMG_0210.JPG Some_PDF-numKK.pdf If I want to find the pdf, and happen to remember that it had "numKK" in the filename, I might reasonably search "numKK" and expect to find it. In practice though, this will return 0 results. A search for...
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    Windows 7 Slow Directory display on USB disk

    I have a Seagate Backup Plus 8TB Desktop USB External Hard Drive on my Win 7 ASUS G73S laptop . It works well , just for one problem . If I don't access a directory on it for a few minutes , then when I do , the file display can take quite a while to come up , while I get a slow advancing green...
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    Windows 10 File search not working

    Since my upgrade to Windows 10240 from 8.1, file search (windows key + search string) returns no results. Rebuilt index from scratch. Not working. Any hint?
  7. Episode 185: DocumentDB Updates with Ryan CrawCour | Microsoft Azure Cloud Cover Show

    In this episode Chris Risner and Haishi Bai are joined by Link Removed, Sr Program Manager working on Azure DocumentDB. Ryan joins us to give us an update on what DocumentDB's been doing since he was Link Removed. Ryan begins by giving a brief overview of what DocumentDB is and why it's...
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    Windows 7 Constant Hard Disk Activity in Windows 7: How to Identify Background Tasks

    i recently began using win 7 64 ultimate sp1 from win xp sp3 and one of the first things i noticed is that if i don't move the mouse for about 1-2 minutes the red led on my computer flashes all the time! and there's sound like the harddisks are being used.. even now as i write it's doing this...
  9. Windows 8 SOLVED: Uninstalled apps appear in search

    This is a minor issue but it is bugging me. I have uninstalled "HP Coolsense" from my PC and can't find a reference to it anywhere. But it still shows up in my windows search (the one that shows up from the right) . . with an icon and everything (unfortunately I can't snip that but I could the...
  10. Windows 8 Windows 8.1 search

    Search is not properly working after upgrading to Windows 8.1. To get the search effectively working, I have to manually run the indexing option. The indexing takes for long time but this is not the issue. The issue is that the entire indexing results disappears when I turn my PC off!!
  11. Windows 8 Problem with the memory indexing in windows 7.

    In my system, the size of each and every file and folder displaying the memory occupied in an odd way. here is a screen shot of my problem. please help me how to rectify it.
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    Windows 7 Indholdsindeksets katalog er beskadiget

    Hvad gør man ovennævnte fejl (Windows 7 64 bit)? Peter
  13. Windows XP HDD Visible in Explorer but Not in Device Manager on Windows XP SP3

    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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    Windows 8 Unable to start Windows Search Process

    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...
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    Windows 7 Windows 7 Hard Drive won't stop accessing idle. (disabled indexing)

    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...
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    Windows 8 Slow Windows - Constant HD access

    My HD usage is almost constantly at 100% making my brand new laptop pause when typing every few seconds. Lenovo 530 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. There is no program using more that...
  17. Windows 7 search the Windows 7 index programmatically (where do I put the SQL)

    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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    Windows 7 Get icons to their basic image.

    Hello. 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...
  19. Windows 8 My computer is slow opening files and folders?

    Hi 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...
  20. Windows 7 Programs are installing on both the SSD and the HDD

    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...