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I recently upgraded Windows 7 to Windows 10. The biggest issue I have now is that the Windows Search service no longer works, making the Start menu mostly unusable.
If I go to Indexing Options in the control panel I see that Indexing is not running and the list of paths to index is empty.
Going to advanced options, the current index path is empty, and the new path is empty too. This is true even if I try to use the "New Index" button.
Using the troubleshooter won't help since the service doesn't start. If I try to manually start the "Windows Search" service, I get the error "Error 3: Unable to find specified path" (this is the rough translation, the original message is in my language).
What can I do to find out which path/file is missing ? I tried to check with Process Monitor, but the only file (beside system libraries) the SearchIndexer.exe try to access seem to be c:\ProgramData\Microsoft\Search\Data\Application (everytime the service is started the whole folder c:\ProgramData\Microsoft\Search is deleted and recreated) and C:\Windows\System32\config\systemprofile (which exists).
Edit: all available updates are installed, and issuing
SFC /scannow
Doesn't reveal any issue
have you done the updates yet? only because there were many changes to this whole set already in 2+ cumulatives. Also doing a SFC /scannow would probably be better at first than tracking down all the parts and peices that are needed to work correct. – Psycogeek – 2015-08-30T14:42:44.507
Yes the system is up to date. I firgot to mention that I already tried with SFC /scannow but no issues where found. I will update the questione accordingly – Marco Righele – 2015-08-30T14:55:50.037