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MPS - 30 May 2008 05:54 GMT

Hi,

following an exchange of movable discs I wanted to update the settings of Windows Search Indexing.

The frame for setting the Options remains empty, 'waiting for receiving indexingstatus' (or similar) .

Change and Advanced buttons are greyed out.

The service is running and shown in Device Task Manager.

Any suggestions howto activate/repair the settings buttons again?

Looking forward,

Maria

Vista Home Premium, no SP1 yet

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MPS - 30 May 2008 07:45 GMT

Hi all,

just happened to find this great article:

http://www.vistax64.com/tutorials/85803-index-windows-search-service.html

of which chapter 2, "Reset the Index in the Registry:"
did the trick.

Hope it works for you too.

Ciao, Maria

Hi,

following an exchange of movable discs I wanted to update the settings of Windows Search Indexing.

The frame for setting the Options remains empty, 'waiting for receiving indexingstatus' (or similar) .

Change and Advanced buttons are greyed out.

The service is running and shown in Device Task Manager.

Any suggestions howto activate/repair the settings buttons again?

Looking forward,

Maria

Vista Home Premium, no SP1 yet

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Ramesh, MS-MVP - 30 May 2008 08:10 GMT

The Advanced tab is unavailable in the Indexing Options item in Control Panel:
http://support.microsoft.com/kb/934646

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Ramesh Srinivasan, Microsoft MVP [Windows Shell/User]
The Winhelponline Blog: http://www.winhelponline.com/blog
Windows® Troubleshooting: http://www.winhelponline.com

Hi all,

just happened to find this great article:

http://www.vistax64.com/tutorials/85803-index-windows-search-service.html

of which chapter 2, "Reset the Index in the Registry:"
did the trick.

Hope it works for you too.

Ciao, Maria

"MPS" <maria.steyn@nospamorange.nl> schreef in bericht news:%23m$0DFhwIHA.3384@TK2MSFTNGP03.phx.gbl...
Hi,

following an exchange of movable discs I wanted to update the settings of Windows Search Indexing.

The frame for setting the Options remains empty, 'waiting for receiving indexingstatus' (or similar) .

Change and Advanced buttons are greyed out.

The service is running and shown in Device Task Manager.

Any suggestions howto activate/repair the settings buttons again?

Looking forward,

Maria

Vista Home Premium, no SP1 yet

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MPS - 30 May 2008 21:27 GMT

THank you. In my case the diagnosis "Additionally, the Windows Desktop Search service does not
start." was not true i.e. it was running albeit unsuccessful.

The

http://www.vistax64.com/tutorials/85803-index-windows-search-service.html

of which chapter 2, "Reset the Index in the Registry:"
did the trick.

Ciao, Maria

The Advanced tab is unavailable in the Indexing Options item in Control Panel:
http://support.microsoft.com/kb/934646

Signature

Regards,

Ramesh Srinivasan, Microsoft MVP [Windows Shell/User]
The Winhelponline Blog: http://www.winhelponline.com/blog
Windows® Troubleshooting: http://www.winhelponline.com

"MPS" <maria.steyn@nospamorange.nl> wrote in message news:egdDGDiwIHA.2360@TK2MSFTNGP05.phx.gbl...
Hi all,

just happened to find this great article:

http://www.vistax64.com/tutorials/85803-index-windows-search-service.html

of which chapter 2, "Reset the Index in the Registry:"
did the trick.

Hope it works for you too.

Ciao, Maria

"MPS" <maria.steyn@nospamorange.nl> schreef in bericht
news:%23m$0DFhwIHA.3384@TK2MSFTNGP03.phx.gbl...
Hi,

following an exchange of movable discs I wanted to update the settings of Windows Search Indexing.

The frame for setting the Options remains empty, 'waiting for receiving indexingstatus' (or similar)
.

Change and Advanced buttons are greyed out.

The service is running and shown in Device Task Manager.

Any suggestions howto activate/repair the settings buttons again?

Looking forward,

Maria

Vista Home Premium, no SP1 yet

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