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You don’t want to go messing with indexing unknowns. Resist that impulse with every fibre of your geeky frame. There are other tempting entries in the Windows Search part of the registry, well, tempting to nerds anyway. You don’t have to reverse the registry entry permissions unless you feel the need. Go back to the registry, change the DisableBackOff key back to 0 and restart the Windows Search service.

Once the index has caught up with the entire contents of your computer, Outlook etc you probably don’t want the indexing service hogging precious CPU resources.

Of course, the higher priority indexing will make other work on your computer a bit slower, which brings us to the important final step. It’s hardly speedy but better than nothing I suppose. On our test machine indexing of 814,000 items took about 23 hours with the changed registry setting instead of running for many days and only indexing a third of the complete computer. Even when the indexing status is showing ‘Indexing speed is reduced due to user activity’, indexing is still happening. The changed option doesn’t make indexing happen at a very high priority, just higher than usual. Make sure you’re running Regedit as an Administrator and you’ve changed the ‘Gathering Manager’ Owner to the Administrators group. If you can’t change the registry entry it will be a permissions issue. In response to readers questions … yes, this tip definitely works on at least Windows 10, 8 and 7. You can continue to work on the computer but indexing will continue in the background and is less likely to pause when other programs are running.

The DisableBackOff = 1 option makes the indexing go faster than the default value.

Go to Control Panel | Indexing Options to monitor the indexing.

The registry changes don’t take effect until the search services has restarted. Go to Control Panel | Administrative Tools | Services, scroll down the list to Windows Search and restart the service.

Once you’ve changed DisableBackOff to 1:.

If not, check the permissions and owner carefully.

Now you should be able to edit the DisableBackOff key in step 1.

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Make sure the Administrators group has Full Control then click OK. Click OK twice to return to the Permissions dialog. Type in the ‘Administrators’ group, click Check Names button to verify. Next to the listed Owner click the Change link.

Right-click on the ‘Gathering Manager’ item in the registry tree and choose ‘Permissions’ then the ‘Advanced’ button.

If you can, great, but chances are you’ll get this error:Ĭannot Edit DisableBackoff: Error writing the value’s new contents. HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE\SOFTWARE\Microsoft\Windows Search\Gathering Manager\DisableBackoffĪnd try modifying the registry value from 0 (the default) to 1.

Open Regedit (Start menu | Run | Regedit) as an Administrator:.

As with any registry changes, take care and make a registry backup before you begin.

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If you don’t know how to edit the Windows registry, this probably isn’t a tip for you. Windows Search\Gathering Manager\DisableBackoffīut before you rush off to do that there are some important steps before and after.

In short you have to change a registry key called: Microsoft has provided a way to make indexing go faster – but it’s not easy. There’s no button on the Control Panel | Indexing Options that can do it - there’s ‘Pause’ to make it stop but nothing to make it go faster. Microsoft took that away in Windows Vista and has been willfully deaf to requests for its return.

Index Nowīack in the early days of Windows Indexing there was an ‘Index now’ option to force indexing to take more computer resources and finish indexing faster.

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In fact, this article is an update of a 2008 article on the same subject with the same registry entry.īelow are the step-by-step instructions then some batch files to let you automate the process.

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It show the steps in Windows 10 but the same, or very similar applies to Windows 8 and 7.

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There’s step-by-step instructions plus some batch files if you’d like to automate the process. In this article we’ll explain how to speed up the indexing. Windows will fully reindex your computer for various reasons including some changes in index/search settings and if the index files become corrupt. Alas, the default setting is so discreet that indexing can take days and sometimes never completes. Indexing happens as a background task when nothing else is happening. The problem is that indexing can take a long time and sometimes never completes. Until the index is complete you may get the dreaded “Search results may be incomplete because items are still being indexed” error.

It’s essential for quick searches, even within Outlook. Windows Search makes an index of all your files, documents and Outlook data. You can make Windows Search index your documents and Outlook data faster – here’s how.