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Under Control Panel there is an Option &quot;Indexing Options&quot; that should allow you to manually add folders to the index.
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Under Control Panel there is an Option "Indexing Options" that should allow you to manually add folders to the index.

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What service are you talking about? Windows search?
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What service are you talking about? Windows search?

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I went into the control panel and looked for Index Service but it is not there. The role is installed, and the actual service is started.
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I went into the control panel and looked for Index Service but it is not there. The role is installed, and the actual service is started.

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