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The searching engine in Windows Vista is a good improvement over its predecessor in Windows XP, did you know that it can also search into Microsoft Outlook 2007?

Anyway, we have lately encountered some problems with out search engine on Windows Vista while trying to search for some items, sometimes we were receiving errors, and sometimes we were unable to find the targeted items although we knew they were there on the computer, and we were able to reach them manually.

The best thing to do in this case is to rebuild the search index, this will clear the already existing index and will build a fresh new one. It could be a lengthy process but it IS worth it. Here’s how you can rebuild your search index in Windows Vista.

  1. Launch the “Indexing Options” by clicking on Start and typing “indexing”.
  2. When the dialog box open, click on “Advanced”.
  3. A new windows will be opened, there you will find a button titled “Rebuild”, click on it.

Since the process might take time as we already mentioned, you might want to consider doing it overnight.