Comments on: Disabling Instant Search in Outlook 2007

By: Travis

Travis — Wed, 16 Sep 2009 18:47:04 +0000

Hahahaha, ‘painfully slow’? Is that geekspeak for “actually works”?

InstantSearch and WDS4 are the glitchiest piles of garbage I’ve had the misfortune of running into in a long time.

By: Roger

Roger — Mon, 31 Aug 2009 10:59:49 +0000

Thanks !!!

I was very upset with it because that f*****g advanced search did not returned anything, because indexing was enabled.

Despite that option activated that tells outlook to tell us if indexing was not complete with a message box, outlook remainded autistic…

By: Richard Scott

Richard Scott — Tue, 02 Jun 2009 10:21:14 +0000

Hi, Can you please help me. I get this error message when I try to use the instant search. In outlook 2007, I’m still on MS XP

“Instant Search encountered a problem while trying to display search results. Mondifying your queary may resolve this problem.”

I don’t know why I suddenly get this message. I have not changed the settings and the instant search worked last week.

Thank you

By: Santosh

Santosh — Tue, 28 Apr 2009 14:02:29 +0000

Hi, I need a help in Outlook 2007

I want to RESTRICT Search Inbox option only for SENDER and SUBJECT. But by default, Outlook searches even email body thus it takes a while.

Do you know how to set this?

Thanks,
Santosh

By: Andor

Andor — Mon, 09 Feb 2009 15:00:23 +0000

Thank you for this! The indexed search in both Vista and Outlook is the biggest setback of Microsoft in many years. It simply does not return all the result, because always the index is either corrupted, or incomplete, or Windows/Outlook decided it did not need to index certain areas. Search is practically impossible on Vista and in Outlook 2007.

Fortunately, now there is a way to disable the software to think for you and decide that you really won’t be looking for whichever file you are looking. So thanks for this!

By: Mike

Mike — Thu, 15 Jan 2009 22:09:25 +0000

I just did the same thing. I have tried all of the recommended remedies for rebuilding the index to no avail. I am now downloading Google Desktop to replace the fast searching.

By: M. Keller

M. Keller — Fri, 19 Dec 2008 13:48:45 +0000

On a different note on MS Outlook using Contacts. I enter a contact and several days later it is not there when I try to send an e-mail message to that contact. I re-enter the information for that contact only to be told that the contact already exists and if I want to add the info to the existing contact…ussually strapt for time, I simply add the new version of the contact. This can happen several times so that I will get several identical contacts of the same person….help

By: Roman

Roman — Tue, 16 Dec 2008 20:48:50 +0000

Please help. Outlook 2007 is still indexing! I really need to use search. I have tried everything above and all other sites. Pleas help!!

By: Elanza

Elanza — Mon, 26 May 2008 11:16:18 +0000

Please help. I’m trying to disable indexing of mailbox. I follow all the steps but outlook keeps on comming back with an error. I cannot use search as Outlook 2007 is always busy indexing

By: Eric

Eric — Thu, 20 Mar 2008 16:29:44 +0000

Just removing the checks for each data file listed under “Search Options”, “Indexing Options” appears to have fixed it for me. After restarting Outlook 2007, quick search is still available and working again.

Thanks!