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Thursday, 27 February 2014

Rebuilding A Corrupted Windows Search Index

Ever get that painfully slow wait when you’re trying to utilize the “Run” menu in Windows 7, or Windows 8?  The run menu is actually performing a search via an index, which can sometimes take a dreadfully long time to complete.  This reason this occurs can vary, but it’s usually due to the search index itself having halted while “crawling” your computer.  Keep reading to learn the process of rebuilding a corrupted Windows search index.

Start > Control Panel > Indexing Options :

Rebuilding A Corrupted Windows Search Index
Rebuilding A Corrupted Windows Search Index

From here you can click on Modify, which will allow you to eliminate the troublesome files or folder that are hanging the index :

Rebuilding A Corrupted Windows Search Index
Rebuilding A Corrupted Windows Search Index

Or if you’re looking for a quick and easy fix, you can choose the “Rebuild” option under “Advanced.”  This essentially deletes the current index and starts the process of rebuilding it.

Rebuilding A Corrupted Windows Search Index
Rebuilding A Corrupted Windows Search Index

And that’s how you rebuild a corrupted search index on Windows 7/8!

Thanks & Regards
  Srikanth Goud  - Virtualization Administrator

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