Windows 10: Unable to turn on search indexing

Discus and support Unable to turn on search indexing in Windows 10 Software and Apps to solve the problem; I was unable to open 'Gallery' in file explorer due to indexing being turned offwhich I thought I had done.So as to use Gallery I tried to turn on... Discussion in 'Windows 10 Software and Apps' started by Shreyas Dalvi, Mar 14, 2025 at 10:22 AM.

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    Unable to turn on search indexing


    I was unable to open 'Gallery' in file explorer due to indexing being turned offwhich I thought I had done.So as to use Gallery I tried to turn on indexing using the pop-up which showed but it didn't work then I opened indexing options to see thisI tried troubleshooting but it couldn't fix it I did flicker something instead of indexing is not running but was too fast for me to read itwhen I clicked on advanced and everything was greyed out expect rebuildwhich didn't work eitherI tried to start it from services.msc but that is also showing an errorNote:- Also unable to open Settings keeps

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