If you don’t know how to edit the Windows registry, this probably isn’t a tip for you. Windows Search\Gathering Manager\DisableBackoffīut before you rush off to do that there are some important steps before and after. In short you have to change a registry key called: Microsoft has provided a way to make indexing go faster – but it’s not easy. There’s no button on the Control Panel | Indexing Options that can do it - there’s ‘Pause’ to make it stop but nothing to make it go faster. Microsoft took that away in Windows Vista and has been willfully deaf to requests for its return. Index Nowīack in the early days of Windows Indexing there was an ‘Index now’ option to force indexing to take more computer resources and finish indexing faster. In fact, this article is an update of a 2008 article on the same subject with the same registry entry.īelow are the step-by-step instructions then some batch files to let you automate the process. It show the steps in Windows 10 but the same, or very similar applies to Windows 8 and 7. There’s step-by-step instructions plus some batch files if you’d like to automate the process. In this article we’ll explain how to speed up the indexing. Windows will fully reindex your computer for various reasons including some changes in index/search settings and if the index files become corrupt. Alas, the default setting is so discreet that indexing can take days and sometimes never completes. Indexing happens as a background task when nothing else is happening. The problem is that indexing can take a long time and sometimes never completes.
Until the index is complete you may get the dreaded “Search results may be incomplete because items are still being indexed” error. It’s essential for quick searches, even within Outlook. Windows Search makes an index of all your files, documents and Outlook data. You can make Windows Search index your documents and Outlook data faster – here’s how. Thanks for joining us! You'll get a welcome message in a few moments.
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