{"id":190,"date":"2008-09-22T22:00:54","date_gmt":"2008-09-22T21:00:54","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.nooblet.org\/blog\/?p=190"},"modified":"2013-01-10T02:48:12","modified_gmt":"2013-01-10T02:48:12","slug":"fix-vista-not-indexing-files","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.nooblet.org\/blog\/2008\/fix-vista-not-indexing-files\/","title":{"rendered":"Fix Vista not indexing files"},"content":{"rendered":"

I had a strange problem where Windows Vista’s desktop search wasn’t indexing files. I tried to rebuild the index and after a couple of weeks only 10 files were indexed.<\/p>\n

I finally came accross the fix to this problem here<\/a> to change the Search and Index power options from PowerSaver to something else.<\/p>\n

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  1. Open Power Options in Vista (Control Panel -> System and Maintenance -> Power Options).<\/li>\n
  2. Under your current selected plan, click “Change plan settings”.<\/li>\n
  3. Click “Change advanced power settings”.<\/li>\n
  4. Under “Search and Indexing”, change to Balanced or High Performance.<\/li>\n<\/ol>\n

    The indexing took about an hour after that, and all missing files were finally included.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

    I had a strange problem where Windows Vista’s desktop search wasn’t indexing files. I tried to rebuild the index and after a couple of weeks only 10 files were indexed. I finally came accross the fix to this problem here to change the Search and Index power options from PowerSaver to something else. Open Power […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":641,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[9],"tags":[89,90,128,129,167,234,173],"class_list":["post-190","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-windows","tag-index","tag-indexing","tag-power","tag-power-options","tag-vista","tag-windows","tag-windows-vista"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.nooblet.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/190","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.nooblet.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.nooblet.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.nooblet.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.nooblet.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=190"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.nooblet.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/190\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":700,"href":"https:\/\/www.nooblet.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/190\/revisions\/700"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.nooblet.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/641"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.nooblet.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=190"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.nooblet.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=190"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.nooblet.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=190"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}