Hi, my vista Home Premium has yet again got the index/search not working.
Start/Control panel/ Index Options, gives me a dialogue box that says the
index is not running and all the other functions are greyed out. I have had
this before and found that I had to reinstall Vista (a fix was expected early
08) I believe it is being caused by my external hard drive being removed and
the drive no longer is available to the Index?.
I have tried the "0 in SetupCompletedSuccessfully" fix, and copying the
gathrprm.txt and schema.txt files to the configure Folder.
I have a Sony VGN-FZ11z fully updated with Vista Home Premium.
I really don’t want to reinstall again, can anyone PLEASE help.
Thank

Ensure that these are the services are running and set on Automatic: Windows
Search, Remote Procedure Call (RPC), DCOM Server Process Launcher.

Rebuild Index.

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Hi,
RPC, DCOM & Windows Search all on auto, but the Windows search service will
not start. A dialogue box come up:
"Windows could not start the Windows search service on Local Computer"
Error 3: The system could not find the path specified,
when I select start.


Help!!!!
& thanks.


HappyAndyK" wrote:

Ensure that these are the services are running and set on Automatic: Windows
Search, Remote Procedure Call (RPC), DCOM Server Process Launcher.

Rebuild Index.

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Mike;579461 Wrote:
Hi,
RPC, DCOM & Windows Search all on auto, but the Windows search service
will
not start. A dialogue box come up:
"Windows could not start the Windows search service on Local Computer"
Error 3: The system could not find the path specified,
when I select start.


Help!!!!
& thanks.


HappyAndyK" wrote:

Ensure that these are the services are running and set on Automatic:
Windows
Search, Remote Procedure Call (RPC), DCOM Server Process Launcher.

Rebuild Index.

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Hi Mike,

Leave the service set as Automatic, then follow these steps here. When
done, restart the computer. It should start the service and the Index.

http://www.vistax64.com/tutorials/85...h-service.html

Shawn


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Hi Shawn, sorry this is the first chance Ive had to try the links
suggestions! Ive followed the instructions to the letter, but still no joy!
The only diffrence my system had to the instructions were, I didnt have an
Applications folder. I have added one to the Data folder now.

Thanks
Mike


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Mike;579461 Wrote:
Hi,
RPC, DCOM & Windows Search all on auto, but the Windows search service
will
not start. A dialogue box come up:
"Windows could not start the Windows search service on Local Computer"
Error 3: The system could not find the path specified,
when I select start.


Help!!!!
& thanks.


HappyAndyK" wrote:

Ensure that these are the services are running and set on Automatic:
Windows
Search, Remote Procedure Call (RPC), DCOM Server Process Launcher.

Rebuild Index.

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Hi Mike,

Leave the service set as Automatic, then follow these steps here. When
done, restart the computer. It should start the service and the Index.

http://www.vistax64.com/tutorials/85...h-service.html

Shawn


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Mike;585222 Wrote:
Hi Shawn, sorry this is the first chance Ive had to try the links
suggestions! Ive followed the instructions to the letter, but still no
joy!
The only diffrence my system had to the instructions were, I didnt have
an
Applications folder. I have added one to the Data folder now.

Thanks
Mike


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Mike;579461 Wrote:

Hi Mike,

Leave the service set as Automatic, then follow these steps here.
When
done, restart the computer. It should start the service and the
Index.


http://www.vistax64.com/tutorials/85...h-service.html

Shawn


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Mike,

I'm sorry to hear that it did not help you. You can do a System
Restore using a restore point dated before the problem started.

http://www.vistax64.com/tutorials/76...store-how.html

If that still does not help, then you can do a Repair install. This
will allow you to repair your Vista installation and keep your user
account files, settings, and programs.

http://www.vistax64.com/tutorials/88...all-vista.html

Shawn


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Hi, I ended up reinstalling Vista. What a hassel. So, my final question is,
should I not have enable the indexing on my external hard drive?. Is it
possible that by doing so, it had messed up the indexing?
Thanks
Mike



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Mike;585222 Wrote:
Hi Shawn, sorry this is the first chance Ive had to try the links
suggestions! Ive followed the instructions to the letter, but still no
joy!
The only diffrence my system had to the instructions were, I didnt have
an
Applications folder. I have added one to the Data folder now.

Thanks
Mike


"brink" wrote:


Mike;579461 Wrote:

Hi Mike,

Leave the service set as Automatic, then follow these steps here.
When
done, restart the computer. It should start the service and the
Index.


http://www.vistax64.com/tutorials/85...h-service.html

Shawn


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Mike,

I'm sorry to hear that it did not help you. You can do a System
Restore using a restore point dated before the problem started.

http://www.vistax64.com/tutorials/76...store-how.html

If that still does not help, then you can do a Repair install. This
will allow you to repair your Vista installation and keep your user
account files, settings, and programs.

http://www.vistax64.com/tutorials/88...all-vista.html

Shawn


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Mike;587585 Wrote:
Hi, I ended up reinstalling Vista. What a hassel. So, my final question
is,
should I not have enable the indexing on my external hard drive?. Is it
possible that by doing so, it had messed up the indexing?
Thanks
Mike



Mike,

If you leave it connected and on with the computer on, I do not see how
it could hurt anything. It may have errored out after the index tried to
run when it was not connected. To be safe, I would leave the external
drive off the added index locations and use the non-indexed search when
doing searches on it.

Shawn


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Thanks for that, yes i will remember that for the future. thanks for your
time and help
Mike

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Mike;587585 Wrote:
Hi, I ended up reinstalling Vista. What a hassel. So, my final question
is,
should I not have enable the indexing on my external hard drive?. Is it
possible that by doing so, it had messed up the indexing?
Thanks
Mike



Mike,

If you leave it connected and on with the computer on, I do not see how
it could hurt anything. It may have errored out after the index tried to
run when it was not connected. To be safe, I would leave the external
drive off the added index locations and use the non-indexed search when
doing searches on it.

Shawn


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Mike;587642 Wrote:
Thanks for that, yes i will remember that for the future. thanks for
your
time and help
Mike

"Brink" wrote:


Mike;587585 Wrote:

Mike,

If you leave it connected and on with the computer on, I do not see
how
it could hurt anything. It may have errored out after the index tried
to
run when it was not connected. To be safe, I would leave the external
drive off the added index locations and use the non-indexed search
when
doing searches on it.

Shawn


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Your welcome Mike.


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