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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)...

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...

Hello 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...

I want to search my entire computer (or perhaps an entire drive or folder structure) for a file called abc.txt. So I navigate in explorer to My Computer (or a drive or a folder structure) and in the top-right corner of explorer, I enter my filename search term. Instead of just seaching for that...

Having changed from XP I find the "Search" facility in Win 7 to be unsatisfactory for my purposes. Whilst it will locate files that have been indexed I am unable to locate system files and others. eg. .exe and .dll. I have just had need to locate a .dll file and the search facility would not do...

I have a folder named Rift Beta on my D: drive. No matter what I do Windows 7 search will not find it. It's there, I can open it, I can access the files but if I type, Rift in the search window it only finds the Rift screenshots in another folder on D:, not the folder named Rift Beta! I...

Hello: Windows 7 for some strange reason doesn't have the ability to right click on a volume, folder, etc-amazing. I have been able to regain the search function for folders to right click but it doesn't work on right clicking a volume (hard drive) for some reason. I have always used this...

Hi All, I've catagorized this issue in "Video" because that is where it becomes most apparent, however it shows up intermitently throughout the day ... mostly when I am doing anything graphic intensive. My System: PC - Shuttle SX48P2 Deluxe OS - Windows 7 Ultimate RAM - 8 GB DDR3 VIDEO -...

Hi All. I am hoping to get some additional assistance for resolving another "windows cannot find 'search:query=XXX'" error I have been experiencing lately. The problem is similar to the one I described previously (here: Link Removed - Invalid URL) ...namely, I am running Windows 7...

A user uses their My Documents on a NAS, so have a mapped drive ie: S: I attempted to change Start - Documents - properties to s:\My documents, but Win 7 reported "unable to add because not indexed" I later found Users\User\My Documents - properties - location to s:\My documents, however...

Hi,Ive run into this problem recently,and do not know how to fix it. I cant remember any significant changes made to my system to trigger this. The problem im having is,all the info ID tags for the songs show fine,in idtag&rename and a fewe other id software,but none of it shows up in the...

It seems odd that MS has totally disregarded SSD drives by incorporating 'indexing' in windows 7. Anyone using windows 7 with SSD drives is sure to drastically decrease the life of the SSD drive unless the Indexing is disabled. Since the new GUI requires mainly the use of search as a means of...