Service does not start

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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.

Bryan Raynolds

Posted 2016-09-04T16:52:28.223

Reputation: 61

One of these fixes ought to help Fix Windows Search Error 1053 "Service did not respond" | Windows Search wont start (Error 1053) - Super User

– w32sh – 2016-09-04T18:08:44.187

That helped but did not solved the problem – Bryan Raynolds – 2016-09-04T19:39:25.593

1May be the search index database has been corrupted, try to rebuild it: Control Panel > Indexing Options > Advanced > Index Settings > Rebuild, to check if it gets to work again. – Kevin Tu – 2016-09-05T02:14:25.403

Answers

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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.

Lee

Posted 2016-09-04T16:52:28.223

Reputation: 1

Asked: 2016-09-04T16:52:28.223

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Active: 2016-11-08T06:11:43.783