Timeline for Stopping Microsoft Search from eating my hard drive
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| Feb 8, 2023 at 18:19 | comment | added | Nayunis | I found that your solution indeed only worked when including the last step. First, I tried it without that step and the new index ended up being even larger than before! I don't quite understand why, but the last part seems to play a crucial role. | |
| Feb 25, 2020 at 17:07 | comment | added | mwfearnley |
Instead of renaming/deleting it and forcing a rescan of your disk, you could try defragging it: support.microsoft.com/en-gb/help/2838018/… - esentutl.exe /d %AllUsersProfile%\Microsoft\Search\Data\Applications\Windows\Windows.edb
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| Feb 28, 2019 at 19:58 | comment | added | Ben Johnson | 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. | |
| S Feb 29, 2016 at 12:18 | history | suggested | David Ferenczy Rogožan | CC BY-SA 3.0 |
Fixed formatting, grammar.
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| Oct 27, 2009 at 14:26 | vote | accept | User1 | ||
| Oct 24, 2009 at 16:05 | history | answered | User1 | CC BY-SA 2.5 |