Outlook 2010 instant search not working

The instant search function on my outlook 2010 has stopped working.
I have previously had and then repaired this issue after the initial install of office 2010.
To solve the issue before I did the following.
Search tools > Search options > Indexing options > Modify
Deselect all selected options
Delete and rebuild index (advanced options) and restart machine
Reselect the folders to be indexed.

I have tried to repeat this process but I am unable to delete the MS outlook location
I cannot see the documents and settings folder in the C drive and therefore cannot navigate to User name / appdata / local / microsoft / outlook

I have tried changing the view setting in folder options (to show hidden files)
and I have tried opening outlook as an administrator

I cannot see how to to delete this indexed location

As I keep my PST file on a different partition this means that the search functionality has for the time being stopped completely.

Any advice would be much appreciated.

Hi Irene.
Thanks for your quick response.
I have tried the inbox repair tool. It did discover and repair some errors.
I then went to indexing options as described before and tried to navigate to
Documents and settings \ Me \ App Data \ Local \ Microsoft \ Outlook.
Documents and settings is still not visible in the indexing options list. (Hidden files are selected as visible)

What I did not make clear in the last post was that my outlook pst file actually lives in a different location
D:\ outlook
But everything in the D drive is deselected in the indexing options page.
So maybe the indexer is still looking at a pst file somewhere on the C drive.
I did a search for outlook.pst in the C drive and it returned several files some under c:\ users\me\.... and some under C:\Documents and settings\ me\....
In indexing options there was nothing to deselect under C:\ users \ ..... and as mentioned before C:\ documents and settings is not visible.
So - I am still struggling to see how I can deselect the outlook icon that remains in the indexing list.

Is the problem that the indexer is pointing at another pst file under C:\documents and settings and that I need to somehow access this in the indexing options to deselect it ?
Or does the solution lie elsewhere?

Still have no indexing for MS Outlook. Anyone out there with a solution? Any takers? .

I seem to have solved the issue. So for the possible benefit of other's here is what I did.

1. Ran a repair on MS office - (This solved the issue with not being able to select / deselect certain indexing locations)
2. Ran Scanpst
3. Outlook > Search tools > Search options > Indexing options > Modify
4. Deselect all selected options
5. Delete and rebuild index (advanced options) and restart machine
6. Reselect the folders to be indexed.

So problem solved - but no idea what made the issue occur....

HI,
I have the same problem. Just wanted to clarify in your last post njhal what you meant by "Ran a repair on MS office"? Did you have the problem on Win7 64bit or 32bit?
It seems that Outlook 2010 on Win 7 64bit is a pain!

Thanks

Hi, Thanks
Using Office 64Bit on Win PRO 64 bit. My search options looks like your screen shot