On a typical user's computer, the Indexer indexes fewer than 30,000 items. On a power user's computer, the Indexer might index up to 300,000 items. If the Indexer indexes more than 400,000 items, you may begin to see performance issues. For more information, go to Size of the index database.
The Indexer can index up to 1 million items. If the Indexer tries to index beyond that limit, it may fail or cause resource problems on the computer (such as high usage of CPU, memory, or disk space).
By default, the Indexer indexes any Outlook mailboxes on the computer. If a mailbox contains more than 6 million items, the performance of the Indexer may degrade. For more information, go to the "Change Outlook settings" section.
As the number of indexed items grows beyond 400,000, the index database grows considerably regardless of the size of those items. The size of the items also affects database size. A database that contains either a few large files or a large number of smaller files can affect performance. Both factors together can compound the problem. The Indexer tries to compress the index data. However, this approach becomes less effective as the index database grows.
To check the size of the index database, use the Size on disk property of the Windows.edb file instead of relying on the Size property or the file size that's listed in Explorer. Because of the compression algorithms that the Indexer uses on sparse ESE and NTFS files, the value that's listed in Explorer may not be accurate. Additionally, this Size value might include space that was used by or allocated to the file in the past, instead of using the current size.
You can use this approach to reduce the number of items that are indexed and to reduce the size of the index database. To exclude whole folders from the index, select Settings > Search > Searching Windows > Add an excluded folder. And then select a folder to exclude.
To control how the indexer treats specific file types, open Indexing Options, and select Advanced > File Types. You can change how the Indexer treats specific file types (identified by file extension) or add and configure new file types.
To help reduce the content of an Outlook mailbox, you can change the synchronization window to a shorter time interval than the default interval of one year. For more information, see the following article:
I able to retrieve Windows event logs from remote machines using WMI, and I'm also indexing local Windows event logs. I like to organize the events coming from the local system and from remote systems based on Windows event log channels, eg: Application, System, ... How do I do that?
Before you make any of the changes below, the indexes where you want these events to go to need to already exit. For example let's assume we have created the "WinEvtApp" index for Windows event log Application channel events, and "WinEvtSec" index for the Security channel events.
How do we write a REGEX if we need to give 2 different fieldnames and its values, and from above
"REGEX = (?m)Logfile=Security"
what is (?m) for and what does it do?
Correct me if i'm wrong other than ?(m) in REGEX.
Note that you don't have to append to the existing. In fact, it will be easier to just define a new transform from scratch, with TRANSFORMS-something = wmi-sec-evt-index, with -something set to anything other than -FIELDS.
How do we write a REGEX if we need to give 2 different fieldnames and its values, and from above "REGEX = (?m)Logfile=Security"
what is (?m) ?
Correct me if i'm wrong.
'Logfile' is fieldname and 'Security' is fieldvalue
In my current application I have a form that requires the user to enter TONS of data. There are about 30 Textboxes and it happens that during development new ones get introduced or old ones get kicked out.
My question now is, why in the heck am I doing something like that in the first place?Is there some better way to handle tab-indexes or is this really how it's going to be? I mean, I was spending hours with that stupid designer setting tabindexes!
Just like previous versions of Windows, Windows 10 has a search indexing service that creates an index of all files on your Windows 10 computer similar to a database index that greatly improves lookup speed. If the files you're looking for are indexed, rather than having to sort through the hundreds of thousands of files manually, that entry can be quickly looked up in the index.
By default, not all files on your computer are indexed. This is done for performance reasons as indexing files does impact performance. However, if you have a few folders that you routinely access and search for files in, you can greatly reduce the time it takes to find these files in Windows Search by indexing them.
To add a folder to the index, click on the Modify button then select the folder you'd like to be indexed. In my example below, I'd like to index my Dropbox folder. To do this, I simply select the checkbox next to the Dropbox folder and it immediately appears in the Summary.
I then click OK and Windows 10 will immediately start indexing the new folder. You will notice the "items indexed" increment and you will also be notified that Indexing speed is reduced to user activity. Since Windows 10 knows that indexing does affect computer performance, it consumes more resources when the computer is idle vs. when you are using it.
If you need further options to tweak indexing, you can also click on the Advanced button, which will bring up the Advanced Options window. In this window, you have numerous options. Here you can tell Windows Search to index encrypted files and even do some troubleshooting and rebuild the entire index all together. This is necessary sometimes when you are adding and removing lots of files at once or notice that Windows Search is displaying inaccurate results.
Finally, if you're finding that the indexing service is taking up too many resources or is more trouble than it's worth, you can disable it completely. To do this, you'll need to open up the Windows services applet, double-click on the Windows Search service, click Stop and finally change the Startup type to Disabled. This will prevent the indexing service from running in the future.
The Windows 10 Search is a much faster way to access those hard-to-find files. By querying a small database rather than sifting through thousands of files, Windows Search can greatly reduce the time it takes to find your files. But don't expect it to work perfectly out of the box. Be sure to add your frequently accessed folders yourself and remember to rebuild the index as your first troubleshooting step if you notice it not performing well.
Is this issue languishing because it only affects a few machines, and works for everyone else? If so, is there any diagnostic information I can provide that would help to find the cause, for those of us affected? Or is it just that all the volunteer developers use Linux?
I suppose that this is a flaw in the file explorer of Windows, not an issue with LibreOffice. I understand that you have enabled indexing of the ODF formats, but Windows Explorer may need to rebuild the index. See this posting in a thread from the OpenOffice forum.
Well, how would this be relevant? I, for instance, am a Windows user/developer, and I tried to help triaging the problem is tdf#130320 that you mentioned. But I simply do not reproduce it on my system (a necessary pre-requisite to be able to do something with this) - as well as OP there in the bug is unable to repro on their home system.
keme, thanks for your input. I did all the things that John_Ha reccomends back in 2015, and I rebuild my desktop index at least once a year, usually more often than that. So whatever the problem is, it is not one that this solves. One thing I have not done is a fix via iFilter, suggested by the final comment in your link. But the last reference I could find here to iFilter was in 2017, and said the iFilter approach was outdated. -w-windows-10-indexing-odt-content-for-file-explorer-search-function/15999/ Note that I commented that I had the same problem in the 2017 posting.
Mike Kaganski & Opaque-- I am not much of a programmer, but I nonetheless spend a lot of time doing coding in R. I know that when my R code does not work, if I want help it is both courtious and pragmatically necessary to provide a reproducable example if I am to get useful answers. But here, the problem lies in the interaction between Windows and LibreOffice, both of which are black boxes to me for anything beyond the user interface. Mike, I was suggesting that for the problem to go unsolved for so long, it needs to be rare either among users or among developers. I was not asseting both.
Welcome back. This is part 3 of an initial 4-part series discussing everything search indexer related on Windows. In this article we are going to talk about what data is actually stored in the index. From files to custom data types, you will be able to start digging through the items that are stored in your own personal index by the time you are done reading.
If you do not have it installed already, the latest Windows SDK contains a few tools that are very useful when exploring your index. In this post we will be walking through how to can use this tool to explore all the data in your index. If you would like to follow along, you can get the latest SDK here.
FTQuery lets you run any SQL (Structured Query Language) style query, which is one of the ways applications can query data in the index. This is one of the ways all the components you saw in the first post in the series were reading data from files. We will do a deep dive into the Structured Query Language in a later post, so for now we will use very simple queries below to extract data.
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