How to use Indexer Diagnostics in Windows 10

Indexing the contents of your PC helps you find results faster when searching for files and other things. Indexing is the process of reviewing files, emails and other content on the PC, and cataloging their information, such as words and metadata in it. The moment you search your PC after indexing, it will look at an index of words to find results faster.

Microsoft has released a beta version of the Indexer Diagnostics application in the Microsoft Store.

The Indexer Diagnostics tool can help you identify problems and problems with Windows Search Indexer in Windows 10.

This guide will show you how to use the Indexer Diagnostics application to identify problems and problems with Windows Search Indexer in Windows 10.

Here's how:

1. If not already, download and install the Indexer Diagnostics application from the Microsoft Store.

2. Open the Indexer Diagnostics application .

3. Now, you can click on the options below in the left panel of Indexer Diagnostics, which is used to help identify problems and problems with Windows Search Indexer.

1. Service status - Displays the current status of the file indexing.

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1. Search is not working - Allows you to restart ( Restart ), reset the search service ( Reset ) and report file errors ( File Bug ) to Microsoft.
2. Is my file indexed? - Allows you to verify whether a specific file is included in the search index database.
3. What is being indexed? - Allows you to see which directory locations are included and excluded in the search index database, as well as to add and remove included and excluded locations.
4. Performance - Allows you to view the number of successful and failed search index queries, gather resource traces and application logs for the search indexer, and send error reports to the event log file (trace file) and the log is attached.

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1. Search roots - Displays the locations where the search indexer will start working.