Windows 10: cortana / search not working properly

Ok thanks, I'll click rebuild again and let it be for a while. It just doesn't give the impression it's doing anything at all

 

You can check in Task Manager and see what processes are running and consuming resources, the indexer should be increasing CPU and disk activity.

 

I tried it again, but nothing springing into life! CPU activity at 1% and nothing in task manager relating to indexing. HD is quiet too. I'll leave it a bit but it doesn't look promsing!

 

Here is the process which I think does the indexing in my Task Manager, may be you have this turned off or disabled. Look in the Details tab for SearchIndexer.exe or the Services tab for WSearch





In services I have Windows Search set up as shown below:

 

Ok thanks, I'll take a look. Really appreciate you sharing that - at least I know where to look now. I'm going to give computer a load of idle time - it's new and I've been hitting it non stop with installations setting up etc

 

Under Indexing Options you could try troubleshooting (my post #6).

 

Yes thank you. Will do - apologies I'd left the issue for a few days and just got round to looking at it again tonight. I missed that part. Hopefully will get to the bottom of it thanks to both of your help

 

Well I will keep an eye on it but it seems to be functioning normally. so maybe it did rebuild the index!!! I will mark as solved. But will update on whether it keeps behaving! Cheers guys

 

Good. Win 10 is sometimes weirder than its predecessors. I'd had the old Win update appearing until recently (not the Settings version) - and it shouldn't have been apparently. So suddenly it disappeared from the control panel (after an in-place upgrade install I think), and I was surprised to see the Settings version. But I also got the unhelpful 'Some settings are managed by your organisation' - only on the Win update dialogues. A few attempts later at hacking the registry etc, with partial success, I looked back again and that legend had disappeared completely.