Tap or click Settings. In the search box, type indexing options. Tap or click Indexing Options. Tap or click Advanced. Tap or click OK to confirm. Need more help? Expand your skills. Get new features first. Was this information helpful? Yes No. Thank you! Any more feedback? The more you tell us the more we can help. Active Oldest Votes. Here's what I had to do: open services.
Improve this answer. Another option is simply to move the Search Index to another disk with more available capacity: in the Indexing Options control panel item, click the Advanced button, and on the Index Settings tab, the Index Location may be changed.
It appears that changing the location and clicking OK causes Windows to move the index file immediately, despite implying that the service must be restarted for the change to take effect. Rhys Gibson 4, 3 3 gold badges 40 40 silver badges 45 45 bronze badges.
But what's the point of doing this? Again and again That's like emptying a bucket under a hole in your roof instead of fixing that hole. Why would you do that unless you enjoy emptying a bucket?
If you don't want to have a big search index and you don't use the Search feature, simple uninstall it or remove some directories from the search indexer. Simple, fast and efficient MagTun MagTun 1, 3 3 gold badges 21 21 silver badges 30 30 bronze badges.
On Windows 10, there is now a menu explicitly for this. Open Indexing Options Click Modify On this new window, you can click on the items in the bottom panel and uncheck their subfolders in the top panel Once you are satisfied with your new indexing options, click OK to go back to the previous window Click Advanced Click Rebuild in the Troobleshooting section Doing this I managed to cut down from 1. Linkyu Linkyu 1 1 silver badge 4 4 bronze badges. Trickster Trickster. This should be the correct answer — pepan.
ChrisF ChrisF Given that this question was asked in , it cannot have been caused by Microsoft Edge, which was first released in This makes no sense. Plus, of course, the fact that this question far predates the first public release of Edge. Sign up or log in Sign up using Google. Home About. You can find all large files on your computer with a simple PowerShell script.
To perform the defragmentation, there should be sufficient free space on the hard drive, since a full copy of the EDB file will be created. Also note that Windows. The fact is that in modern Windows versions, all file contents are indexed, regardless of their size.
And Windows 7 indexed only the first part of large documents. Related Reading. January 10, December 29, Kimi January 8, - am This issue is not only related to Win8 and It also happened with Win William February 7, - pm This is exactly what I was looking for.
Thanks for your help! Lou April 7, - am You saved my life! Tony May 8, - am 1st, thank you for this — was running out of space very fast and just caught it in time. Mikhail September 22, - pm My file windows. Thanks a lot for help.
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