Corrupt Windows earch / Indexing

Someway I managed to have shreddered the Index engine necessary for
Windows Search.

The Indexing Options applet shows:
"0 elements have been indexed."

And I found no way to cure the problem.
The index engine does at all but piling up tons of error events.
The most frequent one is 3100 Gatherer (Details below). It fires almost
every 5 minutes.

Last week among others - I had the sequence of 1004, 1006, 1008, 1010,
1013.

This is just awful with a system based on indexed search.

AFAICS there will be no way about a re-install.
But I fear to loose my carefully done settings in Windows and many
applications.

Does anyone happen to know if there would be any way to re-install
"Windows Search" and Indexing separately?

Might there perhaps be a way to clear wrong things in the registry?

I already asked in the German pendent of vista.assessment, to no avail.

TIA
Rainald
(who is feeling really desperate).

FuP2 set to "vista.general"

*---

|| - System
- Provider
[ Name] Microsoft-Windows-Search
[ Guid] {CA4E628D-8567-4896-AB6B-835B221F373F}
[ EventSourceName] Windows Search Service

- EventID 3100
[ Qualifiers] 49152
Version 0
Level 2
Task 3
Opcode 0
Keywords 0x80000000000000

- TimeCreated
[ SystemTime] 2007-08-08T20:42:02.000Z
EventRecordID 16362
Correlation

- Execution
[ ProcessID] 0
[ ThreadID] 0
Channel Application
Computer Italiano
Security

- EventData
ExtraInfo Details: Dieser Vorgang wurde wegen Zeitüberschreitung
zurückgegeben. (0x800705b4)
---
My translation from German
ExtraInfo Details: This action has been returned due to timeout.
((0x800705b4)

*EoT

Sorry, Fehler vom Amt. Sollte in Ami-NG vista-install. Ich bitte um
Nachsicht.
Aber wenn hier jemand wissen sollte, wäre ich sehr dankbar.
Rainald

Rainald Taesler shared these words of wisdom:

> Someway I managed to have shreddered the Index engine necessary for
> Windows Search.
>
> The Indexing Options applet shows:
> "0 elements have been indexed."
>
> And I found no way to cure the problem.
> The index engine does at all but piling up tons of error events.
> The most frequent one is 3100 Gatherer (Details below). It fires
> almost every 5 minutes.
>
> Last week among others - I had the sequence of 1004, 1006, 1008,
> 1010, 1013.
>
> This is just awful with a system based on indexed search.
>
> AFAICS there will be no way about a re-install.
> But I fear to loose my carefully done settings in Windows and many
> applications.
>
> Does anyone happen to know if there would be any way to re-install
> "Windows Search" and Indexing separately?
>
> Might there perhaps be a way to clear wrong things in the registry?
>
> I already asked in the German pendent of vista.assessment, to no
> avail.
>
> TIA
> Rainald
> (who is feeling really desperate).
>
> FuP2 set to "vista.general"
>
> *---
>
>>> - System
> - Provider
> [ Name] Microsoft-Windows-Search
> [ Guid] {CA4E628D-8567-4896-AB6B-835B221F373F}
> [ EventSourceName] Windows Search Service
>
> - EventID 3100
> [ Qualifiers] 49152
> Version 0
> Level 2
> Task 3
> Opcode 0
> Keywords 0x80000000000000
>
> - TimeCreated
> [ SystemTime] 2007-08-08T20:42:02.000Z
> EventRecordID 16362
> Correlation
>
> - Execution
> [ ProcessID] 0
> [ ThreadID] 0
> Channel Application
> Computer Italiano
> Security
>
> - EventData
> ExtraInfo Details: Dieser Vorgang wurde wegen Zeitüberschreitung
> zurückgegeben. (0x800705b4)
> ---
> My translation from German
> ExtraInfo Details: This action has been returned due to timeout.
> ((0x800705b4)
>
> *EoT

Rainald Taesler;414340 Wrote:
> Someway I managed to have shreddered the Index engine necessary for
> Windows Search.
>
> The Indexing Options applet shows:
> "0 elements have been indexed."
>
> And I found no way to cure the problem.
> The index engine does at all but piling up tons of error events.
> The most frequent one is 3100 Gatherer (Details below). It fires almost
> every 5 minutes.
>
> Last week among others - I had the sequence of 1004, 1006, 1008, 1010,
> 1013.
>
> This is just awful with a system based on indexed search.
>
> AFAICS there will be no way about a re-install.
> But I fear to loose my carefully done settings in Windows and many
> applications.
>
> Does anyone happen to know if there would be any way to re-install
> "Windows Search" and Indexing separately?
>
> Might there perhaps be a way to clear wrong things in the registry?
>
> I already asked in the German pendent of vista.assessment, to no avail.
>
> TIA
> Rainald
> (who is feeling really desperate).
>
>

Hi Rainald,

Have you already tried to Rebuild the index? You can scroll down to
that section at this link below for how.

http://www.vistax64.com/tutorials/69...g-options.html

If you have and it is still working, you might try running the command
"sfc /scannow" in a elevated command prompt to see if it will not repair
the system files for you. Here is a link for that:


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brink shared these words of wisdom:

>> Someway I managed to have shreddered the Index engine necessary for
>> Windows Search.
>>
>> The Indexing Options applet shows:
>> "0 elements have been indexed."
>>
>> And I found no way to cure the problem.
>> The index engine does at all but piling up tons of error events.
>> The most frequent one is 3100 Gatherer (Details below). It fires
>> almost every 5 minutes.

> Have you already tried to Rebuild the index?

For sure (I'm have more than a year of experience with the new
Index-based search [on my old system under XP I'd been using WDS 3 from
the moment the first Beta appeared]).

The problems under Vista began when trying to repair a problem (WinMail
longer on the list of indexed items/locations)by using "Rebuild".

> You can scroll down to
> that section at this link below for how.
>
> http://www.vistax64.com/tutorials/69...g-options.html

Thanks for the pointer!! Nice page. Saved it in Note for further
reference.
But nothing new to me.

> If you have and it is still working, you might try running the
> command "sfc /scan now" in a elevated command prompt to see if it
> will not repair the system files for you.

Aaaah!
Did not yet try that.
I'll run it and report back.

> Here is a link for that:

Sorry, there seems to be something missing :-(
Thank you so much. At least I'm not feeling a bit less lonely than
before ;-)

Rainald

Rainald Taesler;414500 Wrote:
> brink shared these words of wisdom:
>
> >> Someway I managed to have shreddered the Index engine necessary for
> >> Windows Search.
> >>
> >> The Indexing Options applet shows:
> >> "0 elements have been indexed."
> >>
> >> And I found no way to cure the problem.
> >> The index engine does at all but piling up tons of error events.
> >> The most frequent one is 3100 Gatherer (Details below). It fires
> >> almost every 5 minutes.
>
> > Have you already tried to Rebuild the index?
>
> For sure (I'm have more than a year of experience with the new
> Index-based search [on my old system under XP I'd been using WDS 3 from
> the moment the first Beta appeared]).
>
> The problems under Vista began when trying to repair a problem (WinMail
> longer on the list of indexed items/locations)by using "Rebuild".
>
> > You can scroll down to
> > that section at this link below for how.
> >
> > http://www.vistax64.com/tutorials/69...g-options.html
>
> Thanks for the pointer!! Nice page. Saved it in Note for further
> reference.
> But nothing new to me.
>
> > If you have and it is still working, you might try running the
> > command "sfc /scan now" in a elevated command prompt to see if it
> > will not repair the system files for you.
>
> Aaaah!
> Did not yet try that.
> I'll run it and report back.
>
> > Here is a link for that:
>
> Sorry, there seems to be something missing :-(
> Thank you so much. At least I'm not feeling a bit less lonely than
> before ;-)
>
> Rainald

Your welcome Rainald,

Something missing?

Shawn


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brink shared these words of wisdom:

[broken indexing]
>>> .. you might try running the
>>> command "sfc /scan now" in a elevated command prompt to see if it
>>> will not repair the system files for you.
>>
>> Aaaah!
>> Did not yet try that.
>> I'll run it and report back.

Been there, done so.
No change of the indexing engine's nasty behaviour :-( :-(

>>> Here is a link for that:
>>
>> Sorry, there seems to be something missing :-(
>> Thank you so much. At least I'm not feeling a bit less lonely than
>> before ;-)
>
> Something missing?

Yes. You said:
"Here is a link for that:"
and this was the end.
I thought that you had intended to add something after the ":".

Rainald

Rainald Taesler;414568 Wrote:
>
>
> Yes. You said
> "Here is a link for that:
> and this was the end
> I thought that you had intended to add something after the ":"
>
> Rainal

Ok

It was a link for how to run the "sfc /scannow"

http://www.vistax64.com/tutorials/66...stem-files.htm

And for how to run the "chkdsk /f /r" . See option two step 6

http://www.vistax64.com/tutorials/67612-checkdisk.htm

If you look at the above threads, it may be there now.

Shaw

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brink shared these words of wisdom:

>> Yes. You said:
>> "Here is a link for that:"
>> and this was the end.
>> I thought that you had intended to add something after the ":".
>>
> It was a link for how to run the "sfc /scannow".
>
> http://www.vistax64.com/tutorials/66...tem-files.html
>
> And for how to run the "chkdsk /f /r" . See option two step 6.
>
> http://www.vistax64.com/tutorials/67612-checkdisk.html
>
> If you look at the above threads, it may be there now.

Thanks for the reply, Shwan.

As said, "sfc /scannow" did not fix the problem.
And the HDD has no problem.

Any idea on what else I might try?

Rainald

Rainald Taesler;414906 Wrote:
>
> Thanks for the reply, Shwan.
>
> As said, "sfc /scannow" did not fix the problem.
> And the HDD has no problem.
>
> Any idea on what else I might try?
>
> Rainald

Well Rainald,

I suppose we can check the basics and see if the "Windows Search"
service in set to "Automatic" and is "Started". You can look at this
link for a guide for how if needed.

http://www.vistax64.com/tutorials/59910-services.html

Shawn


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Thank you so much Shawn for staying with me!

brink shared these words of wisdom:

>> As said, "sfc /scannow" did not fix the problem.
>> And the HDD has no problem.
>>
>> Any idea on what else I might try?
>
> I suppose we can check the basics and see if the "Windows Search"
> service in set to "Automatic" and is "Started". You can look at this
> link for a guide for how if needed.

Both "Windows Search" and "Indexing" are set to "Automatic" and they
are started.

I tried stopping and restarting and all else possible in the Services
applet.

Rainald