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[Community-BUG] Indexing Not working #32

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angry-bender opened this issue Apr 29, 2021 · 1 comment · Fixed by #35
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[Community-BUG] Indexing Not working #32

angry-bender opened this issue Apr 29, 2021 · 1 comment · Fixed by #35
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Describe the bug
Indexing of applications not working, thanks to garbage windows 10 search. Everything is basically the main way to search

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Install, Search for preferch parser or mozilla, and watch windows 10 fail to index... beacuse windows

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Windows 10 actually at least indexes shortcuts on the desktop and sub-directories

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  • OS: 20H2
@angry-bender angry-bender added the bug Something isn't working label Apr 29, 2021
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After research, this needs a dll to interact with the System Indexing within windows. This really, means that in reality somone is going to need to use a GUI to change this.

https://stackoverflow.com/questions/65784249/how-to-query-and-add-if-not-listed-a-location-to-windows-10-search-index-using

This really goes beyond the scope of automation. Will add an instruction on the readme, to fix indexing

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