Friday, February 16, 2018

Make Outlook search working again

This is hilarious. Outlook cannot find emails because it uses Windows Search which is totally useless. Here's how to fix this - disable Windows Desktop Search Service for Outlook:
1. Open Registry Editor
2. In "Computer\HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE\SOFTWARE\Policies\Microsoft\Windows" create new key "Windows Search"
3. In the "Windows Search" key create new DWORD value, name it "PreventIndexingOutlook" and set it to 1
4. Exit Registry Editor, and then restart Outlook

Source: https://social.technet.microsoft.com/Forums/office/en-US/8fb64888-8954-4626-ab2e-389b138e73ca/email-search-not-working-in-pst?forum=outlook

Voila!

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