The AppData folder isn't selected and as you can see in the bottom panel, that folder is shown under the Exclude heading. Now, the Figure C screen shot is modified so that you can see all the top level folders in User folder as well as the rest of the top level folders in drive C. You can see that outside of the Users folder none of the other folders on drive C are selected. Again, you can add or remove locations by selecting or clearing check boxes.
Keep in mind that you really don't want to index your entire hard disk as that would slow down the indexing operation. Just index locations where you actually store data files. The reason I do so, is to prevent those files from being included in my regular backups. I don't want to waste space on my backup drive with files that I can easily download at anytime. In addition to adding and removing file types from the index, you can also configure how file types are indexed.
As you scroll through the list, you'll see that each file extension is either indexed by Properties or by Properties and File Contents. For example, Word document files. If you use a file extension that isn't included in the index, you can add it by typing a file extension in the Add new extension to list box and then clicking Add.
If you want to remove a file extension from the index, just clear its check box. Now before I move on, I want to point out that there are more than different Properties a. This includes everything from the basics such as the time and date stamp or file size to more specific things such as the model of the camera used to take a picture.
Again, if you select this check box, the index will have to be rebuilt from scratch, which can take a while. In the Troubleshooting panel, you can click the Rebuild button to delete the existing index and rebuild it from scratch.
While this will take a while to complete, it will definitely fix a corrupt or otherwise non functioning index. In the Indexing location panel, you can of course change the location where the actual index file is located. There could be a chance that Windows search feature has been disabled for you or gone inactive due to some other third party software.
Enable it and test if the issues are rectified. Step 1: Launch the Control Panel. Click on the Start icon and click on Control Panel.
The navigate to Programs and Features. Step 2: On the left pane of the Control Panel window, click on the option to Turn Windows features on or off. Step 3: The Windows Features dialog will show up. Scroll down to find Windows Search and make sure it is ticked. You may also want to try by ticking Indexing Service. It is meant to enable indexing services from previous versions of Windows. In Windows even if everything is fine, you may face issues with a process if at all the services associated with it is off.
Step 2: On the services window, search for Windows Search service. Select the service and turn it off by clicking on Stop from the top left. These are the four things that a user should check if he ever faces indexing issues. If the processes do not help, there could be some malware or third party software interfering with the default. Are you aware of more advanced ways of handling search and indexing issues? A while later I checked, and the service had stopped.
Event viewer revealed some errors like this:. If you are having the same error and arrived here from a Google search, please comment or add an answer detailing your progress on this, if any…. I think you could be correct when you say that there's a corrupted file that causes it to hang. A crude way of trying to identify the file is to go the files tab and turn off half the files types from being indexed.
Let it run. Either it completes or it stops. If it stops, turn off half again. If it completes, you know the bad file type is in the other half. Doing this should allow you to identify the bad file type. Also, look through the file list that's indexed. File types have different search providers, like HTML, plain text and so on.
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