Search service not running windows 7

You can follow the question or vote as helpful, but you cannot reply to this thread. I have the same question Report abuse. Details required :. Cancel Submit. I hope it works for you. How satisfied are you with this reply? Thanks for your feedback, it helps us improve the site. When I went to the folder they directed me to, I found 21 files with the extensions they said.

I tried to delete them all but three will not delete, saying that they are in use by System. I tried to use Killbox to remove them but Killbox gives me an error when trying to delete them Even if I'm able to remove all the files I'm not sure that will fix my problem, but I feel like it's the first step to getting this resolved. Any help would be greatly appreciated! There are actually two search services now for Windows. Can you show in Task manager, Services, or Error Report what the message you are getting, when you attempt to run this service.

Also have you gone through the info in the Malware forum to double check, to make sure the machine is not infected? Thank you for taking my case Brownizs. I have not gone through a detailed malware check because this issue happened after the image and search worked before the image so I'm assuming that it is related to the image.

There are not any other symptoms of malware, but if you think I need to check it I will. Can you tell me how to find in Error Report the message you need?

The only error message I know if is the one I posted which pops up when trying to start the service. Thanks again! Administrative Tools, then look for "Event Viewer". Hi Brownisz I am attaching the event viewer file. You may see this issue if there are missing subkeys or registry entries under the following registry location:.

To resolve this issue, delete all files with. BLF and. Once these files are deleted, reboot the machine.

Once rebooted, observe that the Windows Search service has already started and is in process of rebuilding the Index. Skip to main content.