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beker
Sep 20, 2021Brass Contributor
Outlook 2007 search on Windows 11 fails by returning no results
Since I upgraded to windows 11, Outlook no longer can search for text in messages. This was working on Windows 10 and Windows 8/7. This issue is causing me a headache, I had this issue when upgr...
- Sep 24, 2021
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.
PDF_PT
Mar 13, 2026Copper Contributor
Hi! Any new solution for this? I'm experiencing similar issues - search results on Outlook 2021 on Windows 11 completely inconsistent (0 results, partial results for any search I try). I've done pretty much any recommendation I could find online - from rebuilding index to tweaking registry, and including the one on this post. Nothing works.