Anilrgowda

I am running Windows XP SP2 with auto-update enabled.

The system has a large amount of disk space (> 1 Tbyte) in one Raid 5 array (880 Mbyte), one Raid 0 array (150 Mbyte) and two independent disks (200 and 250 Mbytes respectively). I use it to manage my photographic image collection which consists of over 200 Mbytes of primary images and several hundred Mbytes of secondary (modified) images that are deleted periodically. The primary image store grows by 1-10 Mbytes/month.

I am running Diskeeper 10 Professional Premier.

I have the indexing service enabled and noticed that it was chewing up many of my CPU cycles (if I pause it the average CPU utilization drops by 20-30%).

I wanted to modify the drives/directories that the indexing service accesses, so I went to Administrative Tools --> Computer Management ---> Services and Applications.

I received the following message:

Snap-in failed to initialize. Name: Indexing Service CLSID: {.......}

I opened an instance of MMC and went to File--> Add/remove snap-in --> Add

I got a list of stand-alone snap-ins which included the Indexing Service (which was displayed as a generic folder icon w/o any information in the 'Vendor' column - most of the other snap-ins were displayed as unique icons with 'Microsoft Corp' as vendor).

When I clicked on the Indexing Service, I got the 'Snap-in failed to initialize.....' message as above, with the same CLSID.

I think I need to reinstall the Indexing Service snap-in.

Am I correct and, if so, how do I do that?

Is there something else going on, perhaps related to Diskeeper?

Thanks in advance,


solution

This is what I was referring to (to make sure I gave you the right info about teh search functions in 2007..).

Think it might be something different from the Research Bar......

Snap-In Failed to Initialize - Indexing Service
http://dotnettemplar.net/SnapInFaile...ngService.aspx

After scratching around a bit I found that uninstalling Windows Search (that Outlook 2007 insists on having) would fix it. I did, and Indexing Services got better