Add Index – What Happens?

[jmdraft]

Add Index – What Happens?

When doing a search, I always get click to add index. If it speeds up the search, good. But I have to wonder if it’s going to put everything in some kind of order that I don’t understand. What happens?

 

[Layback Bear]

Here is a tutorial by Brink that should answer your questions.

http://www.sevenforums.com/tutorials/17880-index-rebuild.html

If more information is desired; at the bottom of the page you will find this.

• How to Change Location Where the Index is Stored in Windows 7 and Windows 8
• How to Pause Indexing in Windows 7 and Windows 8
• How to Add or Remove Index Locations in Windows 7 and Windows 8
• How to Add or Remove a File Type from the Index in Windows 7 and Windows 8
• How to Change or Restore the Default Windows 7 Search Options
• How to Search in Windows 7
• How to Create a Search Shortcut in Windows 7
• How to Create a Indexing Options Shortcut in Windows 7
• How to Create a Search and Indexing Troubleshoot Shortcut in Windows 7
• How to Enable or Disable the Search Index in Vista and Windows 7
• How to Have More Accurate Search Results in Windows 7 and Vista
• How to Enable or Disable Search "Indexer Backoff" in Windows 7

I use indexing. In plain language Windows 7 Indexing put thing where Windows 7 wants them so Windows 7 can find them quicker.

 

[jmdraft]

• Thanks Bear but no banana. I tried adding index and now it can’t fine anything in my search. I opened Control Panel (Option 3 “How to Add or Remove Index Locations in Windows 7 and Windows 8
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I don’t see “ Indexing Options icon.”

Any ideas on how to undo this mess?

 

[Alejandro85]

Look here:
What does Windows indexing do? - Super User

 

[jmdraft]

I tried adding index and now my searches don’t work e.g. I know there were some Word docs, pics, websites etc., in a file I have called “Europe Itinerary 2015” in an external drive. Now, when I do a search, it can’t even find the file.

How do I undo the add index mess? I'm trying to add a screen shot but the dingus says add URL. The SS is on my desktop..........no URL. Now what?

 

[UsernameIssues]

For posting screenshots:
http://www.sevenforums.com/tutorials/9733-screenshots-files-upload-post-seven-forums.html

 

[Layback Bear]

Now we have went from indexing not helping to indexing not helping on a external drive.

Did you or did you not look here?

http://www.sevenforums.com/tutorials/17117-index-location-change.html

Please complete this tutorial by Golden so we can see a little more information. Have your external drive hooked up also.

http://www.sevenforums.com/tutorials/274797-disk-management-post-screen-capture-image.html

 

[Barman58]

An index is a list of keywords & phrases linked to the files they appear in, rather than have to check every word in every file to populate a user search if the system uses the index the search can be both more relevant and quicker

Indexing itself, however, takes time ...

When you decide to create or make major changes to windows search index the system will need to re-generate the actual Index, the time taken for this is dependent on several things, the amount of idle time the system has available (the system only indexes when the system is on and not in use), and the amount of data - for example on my system with several terabytes of data a complete index re-build can take several hours of system Idle time

 

[Layback Bear]

I'm just the opposite of Nigel.

I have little data and my indexing just takes a few minutes.
When I redo a indexing I do nothing else on the computer until it is done.

I asked for a picture of Disk Management for a reason. Indexing requires free space or it will not work properly; like many other things in Windows 7.