{"id":29783,"date":"2025-02-10T09:20:50","date_gmt":"2025-02-10T14:20:50","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.thundercloud.net\/infoave\/new\/?p=29783"},"modified":"2025-02-10T09:20:50","modified_gmt":"2025-02-10T14:20:50","slug":"how-to-fix-windows-search","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.thundercloud.net\/infoave\/new\/how-to-fix-windows-search\/","title":{"rendered":"How to Fix Windows Search"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p><span class=\"auto-style2\" style=\"font-size: 24pt; font-family: helvetica, arial, sans-serif;\"><strong>How to Repair Windows Search<\/strong><\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-size: 18pt; font-family: helvetica, arial, sans-serif; color: #808080;\">This tip is for those of you using Windows 10 and\/or Windows 11<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-size: 14pt; font-family: helvetica, arial, sans-serif;\">If Windows Search is not finding files you know are on your computer, or is incredibly slow in finding them, this tip may help. You can easily rebuild the Windows search index and it will help Windows search find things faster.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-size: 14pt; font-family: helvetica, arial, sans-serif;\">Here\u2019s how to rebuild the Windows search index.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-size: 14pt; font-family: helvetica, arial, sans-serif;\">In the taskbar search type INDEX. When \u201cIndexing options\u201d appears in the search results, press Enter. The \u201cIndexing Options\u201d dialog will open.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-size: 14pt; font-family: helvetica, arial, sans-serif;\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/thundercloud.net\/infoave\/images\/2022\/inde11aa.png\" alt=\"Cloudeight Windows 10 and 11 tips\" \/><\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-size: 14pt; font-family: helvetica, arial, sans-serif;\">Click on the Advanced button.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-size: 14pt; font-family: helvetica, arial, sans-serif;\">In the Advanced Indexing Options dialog, click Rebuild.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-size: 14pt; font-family: helvetica, arial, sans-serif;\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/thundercloud.net\/infoave\/images\/2022\/index11b.png\" alt=\"Cloudeight Windows 10 and 11 tips\" \/><\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-size: 14pt; font-family: helvetica, arial, sans-serif;\">Windows will delete the old search index and build a new one. This will take some time.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-size: 14pt; font-family: helvetica, arial, sans-serif;\">When it\u2019s done, try searching again. Did you find what you\u2019re looking for quickly? We hope so!<\/span><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>&nbsp; &nbsp; How to Repair Windows Search This tip is for those of you using Windows 10 and\/or Windows 11 If Windows Search is not finding files you know are on your computer, or is incredibly slow in finding them, this tip may help. You can easily rebuild the Windows search index and it will help Windows search\u2026 <span class=\"read-more\"><a href=\"https:\/\/www.thundercloud.net\/infoave\/new\/how-to-fix-windows-search\/\">Read More &raquo;<\/a><\/span><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":22147,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[3948,4299,4526],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.thundercloud.net\/infoave\/new\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/29783"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.thundercloud.net\/infoave\/new\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.thundercloud.net\/infoave\/new\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.thundercloud.net\/infoave\/new\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.thundercloud.net\/infoave\/new\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=29783"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.thundercloud.net\/infoave\/new\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/29783\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":29784,"href":"https:\/\/www.thundercloud.net\/infoave\/new\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/29783\/revisions\/29784"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.thundercloud.net\/infoave\/new\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/22147"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.thundercloud.net\/infoave\/new\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=29783"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.thundercloud.net\/infoave\/new\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=29783"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.thundercloud.net\/infoave\/new\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=29783"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}