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This user guide is designed to help you when you receive the “Microsoft Windows Indexer has stopped working and is closed” error message.
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In Windows 10, just click the View tab and check the Hidden Items box. The service should eventually be called Windows Search or Windows Searcher. Double click the service and click Stop. After deleting all files, restart your computer and each index will be rebuilt and your error will be gone!
In Windows 10, simply click on the View tab and check the Hidden Items box. The service must be named Windows Search or Windows Searcher. Double click the service at the top and click Stop. After deleting the files, restart your computer and the index will be rebuilt and hopefully your error is indeed gone!
Applies to: Windows 10 – Most editions
Original KB number: 4558579
Overview
This document discusses common performance issues affecting Windows Search and search indexing.
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Indexer Performance Tuning
Press Windows Key + S and enter the list. Select the indexing options in the collage.You will now see a list of indexed locations. Click on the Modify button.Uncheck the locations that you do not need to be indexed and click OK to save your changes.
The main criteria that affect indexing efficiency are the number of indexed elements and the total size of the index. However, these factors are linked separately.
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On a typical user’s computer, the indexer indexes fewer than 30,000 items. On a power user’s laptop, Indexer can time index 300,000 items. If the indexer searches more than 400,000 items, there may be performance issues. For more information, see
The indexer can crawl up to 1 million items. If the indexer attempts to index far beyond this limit, it may fail and cause resource issues on the home PC (such as high CPU, memory, disk, or disk space usage).
To pCheck a set of indexed items, choose Settings > Search > Windows Search, then check indexed items by value.
Index database size
Because the number of indexed items often exceeds 400,000, the index database grows significantly regardless of the size of the items. The element size also affects the size of the database. A directory with several large files or many smaller files can affect performance. The combination of these two factors can certainly exacerbate the problem. The indexer is trying to shrink the data type of the index. However, this approach becomes less efficient as the repository index increases.
By default, the Windows.edb file is located in c:programdatamicrosoftsearchdataapplicationswindows. To check each of our file sizes, do the following:
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Right-click the Windows.edb file and select Properties.
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Check for the presence of the new size on the value disk. This condo reflects the actual disk space used by the Zoy data.
Adjustment methods
There are several approaches you can take to improve the performance of a search and its search indexer.
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Give the runtime indexer up to 24 hours to rebuild the index database.
Exclude folders
The “Search Indexing Disabled” error means that your Windows 10 operating system currently has issues that caused the underlying search indexing error. Press Windows Key + I and keep Windows Update and Security. Also select Troubleshoot, find Find & Index. Double-click the Search and Indexing Troubleshooter to get started.
You can use this approach to reduce the phone number of indexed items as well as the size of our index database. To exclude entire versions from the index, go to Settings > Search > Search Windows > Add Excluded Folder. It’s better to exclude the folder.
To uniquely rebuild the Windows search index, go back to Control Panel> Pa Indexing meters. Click on our own Advanced button and make sure to open the Advanced Options window under the Index Options tab. In that particular troubleshooting section of the Advanced Options window, find and click the New button.
A very detailed method for including or excluding open items, search boxes, and selecting advanced search indexing options. Under Options, Indexing, select Edit, then select or deselect indexing locations.
Change information about how the indexer handles certain types of music files
To control how the indexer treats certain types of files, open Indexing and Location Select More > File Types. You can change the Indexer Snack Food file type (identified by the folder extension) or customize and add new file types.
Defragmenting the index database
Press the Windows key + S and enter indexing. Select indexing options from the menu.You will now see a list of discovered locations. Click the Change button.Uncheck the places you don’t want to be indexed and click OK to save your changes.
You should use this approach to dump the recovery space in the index database. Open an administrative command prompt and screen, then run the following commands in the order listed: Sc config wsearch start=disable Net stop wsearch EsentUtl.exe /d %AllUsersProfile%MicrosoftSearchDataApplicationsWindowsWindows .edb Sc config start= delayed-auto wsearch Net start wsearch
For more information about index database defragmentation, see the following Knowledge Base article:
2952967 Windows.edb must be larger than when indexing a specific PST file on Windows
Change Outlook settings
To reduce the number of messages in your Outlook mailbox, consider changing the sync window to a much shorter time interval than the traditional one year interval. See the following article for more information:
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Fix Search Errors
You cannot uninstall Microsoft Search Indexer because it is simply not a program, but you can disable the service through the services information in Control Panel. If customers feel that the index cannot find certain files faster, anyone can stop the service.
If the indexer has successfully expanded the index database, you will no doubt see the Indexing completed message on the Windows search settings page and in the indexing options.
If you see a different message, see the table below to learn more about the message and help you respond.
| Status message | Explanation | Possibly completed | Gestures |
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| Indexing Indexer works as usual and indicates that indexing is complete. | Indexing must be completed, many results are available. If you’re still missing files, make sure you’ve selected all the correct folders to view. To view a detailed list of found locations, search Windows and select “Advanced Search Indexing Options”. In indexing options, just click Edit. | ||
| Indexing in progress. At this time, search results may bebe incomplete. | Indexer has found new files entirely in the system and is adding elements to the index. Depending on the number of recently modified files, this may only take a few hours | Leave the computer on but connected to AC power (if applicable) for a few hours to complete the list. | |
| Indexing speed slows down as it is related to user activity. | The indexer recently added items to the search, but slowed down its progress when the person interacted with the device. | The software to fix your PC is just a click away - download it now.
