How to restore the Indexing Service in Windows Vista

Although some twenty plus MB free RAM memory would be handy to anyone, it must be said that the indexing function built into Windows Vista (but not only) can definitely be useful, if not indispensable, when you are dealing daily with a large amount of documents.

For those who had not yet understand what we are talking about, Indexing is that function that allows fast search of content through the creation of a separate database. That can be exploited by the start menu and search bar fast, this exploration Windows Vista, for instance.

Pity that, after some "Useful loops" little careful between services and registry system, this function could cease to function without the user's knowledge, causing significant damage in working with it.

To see the status of indexing files on your computer, you must not help but type indexing start menu and press the Enter key. In the case of detention or service problems of various kinds, you can follow this guide helpful in restoring function in question:

Go to the Start menu, type services.msc and press the Enter key;

Make sure the Windows Search service set to Automatic startup mode;

Go to the Start menu, type regedit and press Enter;

Go to the HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE\SOFTWARE\Microsoft\Windows Search;

Change the value of SetupCompletedSuccessfully to 0 (if not, create it);

Restart your computer;

Start Microsoft Outlook.

At this point, you just have to wait for the re-indexing of the contents of your hard drive (and especially of the folders that are part of your personal profile on Windows). This was much easier than you thought, right? :biggrin: