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What is the Windows 10 search index

In the gradual deepening and evolution of the Windows version, many metadata features are added to describe the content of the file. For example, in Windows 10, the music file contains a lot of descriptive information such as title, artist, album, genre, and so on. Through these descriptions, users can find the corresponding music files more easily.

Before Windows Vista, the search function only read some simple features of the current file, such as creation date, file name, file size, and so on. Microsoft introduced a new indexing technology from Windows 7, which takes indexing the whole file content as the default basic indexing function, and indexes the rich metadata features available in the file, and stores them.

To put it simply, it is to retrieve the file properties (including the extended properties of the file) and the contents of the document on the disk, and then write a search result on the disk. When we search for a file, Windows will quickly find it in the indexed results and give it back to the user, similar to the process we use to look up a dictionary.

When there is an error in our index file, it will lead to abnormal search results. For example, the search for files is slow, no files can be found, and so on, which requires us to rebuild the Windows 10 search index files.

How to rebuild the Windows 10 search index

1. Press Windows + R-execute Control to open the control panel

two。 Change the display of the control panel to a small icon, and then click the index option

3. Click modify-tick the folder and path to create the search-click OK

4. Click Advanced-Click rebuild in the Index Settings tab

After clicking rebuild, Windows 10 will make the following prompt:

Rebuilding the index may take a long time to complete. Some views and search results may be incomplete until the rebuild is complete.

5. Click OK to confirm the re-indexing.

By default, Windows 10 enables the Index bouncer to ensure that Windows does not impose too much CPU burden on indexing files, and Windows 10 automatically detects user action and usage activity, and automatically slows or stops index file creation and update when a user is found to be active. Therefore, the process of indexing for users with more files will be slow, but once the index is rebuilt successfully, we can achieve fast search!

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