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I cannot start Windows 8.1 search service.

The error I get:

Windows could not start search service on local computer. Error 1053: The service did not respond to the start or control request in a timely fashion.

I tried to check turn on or off Windows features, but there is no Windows search.

Registry manipulation: HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE\SYSTEM\CurrentControlSet\Control\ServicesPipeTimeout does not change anything.

Sfc /scannow did not help.

EDIT: after suggested registry fix service is now started, but outlook is not searching. https://rickliev.wordpress.com/2013/06/28/outlook-2013-search-not-working/ did not helped. Same error: we could not find what you were looking for.

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For what it's worth, nothing I did would allow the Windows Search service to start and I thus I had no search capability.

Eventually I renamed (on a Windows 10 PC):

C:\ProgramData\Microsoft\search\data

to

C:\ProgramData\Microsoft\search\datax

The service immediately restarted, created a new data directory, and rebuilt the indexes. I assume something corrupted was screwing things up.

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