If your Windows 11 laptop’s battery life feels shorter than it should, the usual advice—dim the screen, close background apps, choose a power‑efficient mode—helps, but it may not be the whole story; one often‑overlooked background system, the Windows Search Indexer, can silently chew CPU, disk...
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If your Windows 11 laptop runs hot, fans spin up frequently, or battery life feels worse than it should, the built‑in Windows Search Indexer — also known as searchindexer.exe or the Windows Search (WSearch) service — is one of the single background features that can meaningfully affect power...
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For the last 3 years I've been successfully copying all my data including Outlook.pst file from my Win 7 desktop to my XP laptop.
The data is transferred from PC to laptop by Synctoy 2.1 which is really quick and easy and of course only adds, deletes or overwrites new or modified files.
The...
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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...
Hi All,
Let me inform you first about what ive already tried:
1. Changed indexing folder
2. Rebuilding
3. Googleing
4. Searching this forum
5. Restarted Windows Search service
6. Removed shareing for Users folder
6. Ensured all folders i want indexed have System security on it with...
Windows 7 File Search Indexing Options
The built-in search feature in Windows 7 is significantly better than the horrible search options in Windows XP. Instead of installing a third-party program like Google Desktop to search for files on inside files on your computer, you can now do it with...
As the title says, I am having issued with the indexing. It will index many e-mails, but get stuck at some number (currently, that number is 7,329)
So i do "delete and rebuild index". the Indexing Options window freezes for a while, and then it unfreezes, with the status of "waiting to receive...
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Hello,
I'm new to this forum but an experienced user of windows systems.
Recently i started to have this strange problem with windows desktop search:
When trying to search the entire index, not a specific location on the disk or inside MS Outlook, there are no results what so ever.
Take a look...
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