Thursday, March 19, 2015

windows-search-indexer-stopped-working

http://www.tomshardware.com/forum/34048-63-need-fixing-microsoft-windows-search-indexer-stopped-working

The trick is to delete all files related to search indexing, located by default at:

C:\ProgramData\Microsoft\Search\Data\Applications\Windows

and:

C:\ProgramData\Microsoft\Search\Data\Temp

Delete all files and folders in these directories (you might want to make a backup, I did, but it proved unnecessary).

Then, change the service back to starting automatically. You still can't start the service until you reboot, at which time Windows will rebuild the index."

http://www.techsupportforum.com/forums/f217/microsoft-windows-search-indexer-stopped-working-and-was-closed-138952.html