Windows 10: Search indexing is taking a remarkably long time.

Discus and support Search indexing is taking a remarkably long time. in Windows 10 Performance & Maintenance to solve the problem; Yesterday, I restored my system from a system image that I had made the night before with Macrium Reflect Free. It worked fine, except that when I... Discussion in 'Windows 10 Performance & Maintenance' started by hbenthow, Jan 28, 2017.

  1. hbenthow Win User

    Search indexing is taking a remarkably long time.


    Yesterday, I restored my system from a system image that I had made the night before with Macrium Reflect Free. It worked fine, except that when I logged into Windows and typed a search term in the Start Menu, I saw a message saying that search indexing was turned off (a pretty common and easy-to-fix issue, to the best of my knowledge). I opened Indexing Options, and chose to delete and rebuild the search index (which I believe is the proper action to take in a case such as mine), but it is taking a very long time. It's been over 30 hours, and it still hasn't finished indexing. Not only that, but the process seems to be getting slower the more time passes. Here's a screenshot I took a few minutes ago:


    Search indexing is taking a remarkably long time. [​IMG]


    :)
     
    hbenthow, Jan 28, 2017
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    So it must be something with your profile, maybe like a cache or indexing issue. Hmm, maybe try rebuilding the search index. (Although this can take a long time as Windows will index all your files and programs again).

    https://www.tekrevue.com/tip/how-to-solve-windows-search-issues-index-rebuild/
     
    Yasshiel Zhang, Jan 28, 2017
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  3. iangie Win User
    Is there any chance for win10 to search a file under C drive?

    Thanks for replying, but the search box in the Explorer windows is also only showing results in several specific locations.

    I found an Indexing Options setting in the control panel and am rebuilding indexes (takes extremely long time to build). Finger crossing....
     
    iangie, Jan 28, 2017
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  4. hbenthow Win User

    Search indexing is taking a remarkably long time.

    I wound up solving the problem on my own. First, I set it to only index "Offline Files", "Start Menu", and "Users" (as I have no need to it to index all of my music, documents, etc). That didn't help in and of itself (although it did give Windows a lot of less files to have to index). It was still extremely slow. Then, I turned my computer off and back on, and it suddenly started working very fast. It indexed over 7,800 files in mere minutes, and was finished.
     
    hbenthow, Jan 28, 2017
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  5. dalchina New Member
    Very slow indexing, assuming your system is not busy - when indexing pauses - could indicate file system corruption or a disk problem.

    Could be worth running chkdsk and Crystal Diskinfo (free, checks SMART parameters).
     
    dalchina, Jan 28, 2017
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  6. hbenthow Win User
    I believe it was an issue related to an external hard drive I had plugged in at the time. I haven't had the problem since the events described in my second post. Indexing is fast now.

    Thank you, though.
     
    hbenthow, Apr 4, 2018
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