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Outlook 2007 search on Windows 11 fails by returning no results
Hi, I finally fixed the problem on Windows 11 by simply going to:
Control Panel->Indexing Options->Modify->Unchecked "Microsoft Office Outlook"
Save everything and restart the Outlook.
Now I can search my mail box.
I thought keeping outlook checked is the right thing to do.
But Microsoft interface and docs, sometimes are not intuitive.
Hope this helps.
Hi, I finally fixed the problem on Windows 11 by simply going to:
Control Panel->Indexing Options->Modify->Unchecked "Microsoft Office Outlook"
Save everything and restart the Outlook.
Now I can search my mail box.
I thought keeping outlook checked is the right thing to do.
But Microsoft interface and docs, sometimes are not intuitive.
Hope this helps.
My solution was: (While in Outlook 2007)
From: Tools/instant search/search options/indexing
Then uncheck “Index messages in these files":
Im my case it was Personal Folders.
Also click on “when searching” show results from all folders
Hope this helps someone too.
This fixed my issue - Thanks.
I could not get this to work, after removing both outlook and outlook 2007 outlook 2007 kept reassigning itself.
My solution was: (While in Outlook 2007)
From: Tools/instant search/search options/indexing
Then uncheck “Index messages in these files":
Im my case it was Personal Folders.
Also click on “when searching” show results from all folders
Hope this helps someone too.Like
HelpIfICan,
Thanks! Your approach (posted Oct 02, 2022) was all I needed to do - deselect the Personal Folders from indexing within the Outlook *app* search options & restart Outlook.
I didn't need to remove "Microsoft Office Outlook" from the Control Panel Indexing Options. Not sure if the Control Panel indexing is still used for Outlook app searches, but the search results are FAST!- Happy for you.... what a pain that was... was win 11 really worth it.
