Windows Search Problem

[Tenoq]

Ok - I've had the Windows Search problem where the service would not enable because the gathrprm.txt and schema.txt files were missing. I no longer have the message saying the index is not turned on - but I KNOW it's still not working. I've followed all the steps in this thread:

http://www.vistax64.com/tutorials/85803-index-windows-search-service.html

To no avail. My event logs now contain (literally) hundreds of errors like this one:

Log Name:      Application
Source:        Microsoft-Windows-Search
Date:          27/05/2008 6:03:03 PM
Event ID:      1044
Task Category: Gatherer
Level:         Error
Keywords:      Classic
User:          N/A
Computer:      xxxxx
Description:
An error occurred in configuration file <C:\ProgramData\Microsoft\Search\Data\Applications\Windows\Config\Schema.Txt>.

Details:
    The configuration file for the application contains an invalid tag.  Reinstall the application.   (0x80040c04)

Event Xml:
<Event xmlns="http://schemas.microsoft.com/win/2004/08/events/event">
  <System>
    <Provider Name="Microsoft-Windows-Search" Guid="{CA4E628D-8567-4896-AB6B-835B221F373F}" EventSourceName="Windows Search Service" />
    <EventID Qualifiers="32768">1044</EventID>
    <Version>0</Version>
    <Level>2</Level>
    <Task>3</Task>
    <Opcode>0</Opcode>
    <Keywords>0x80000000000000</Keywords>
    <TimeCreated SystemTime="2008-05-27T08:03:03.000Z" />
    <EventRecordID>22716</EventRecordID>
    <Correlation />
    <Execution ProcessID="0" ThreadID="0" />
    <Channel>Application</Channel>
    <Computer>Tenoq</Computer>
    <Security />
  </System>
  <EventData>
    <Data Name="ExtraInfo">

Details:
    The configuration file for the application contains an invalid tag.  Reinstall the application.   (0x80040c04)
</Data>
    <Data Name="FileName">C:\ProgramData\Microsoft\Search\Data\Applications\Windows\Config\Schema.Txt</Data>
  </EventData>
</Event>

There's also equivalent ones referring to Gathrprm.Txt. Anyone have any hints on what's going on? If relevant, I've moved my Users folder to another partition. Other than that, it's almost a completely fresh install of Vista Ultimate 32bit SP1 (slipstreamed).

 

[Tenoq]

Ok, I appear to have worked around the issue by installing the new Windows Search 4.0 Preview. Not really a solution, but it will do for now.

I've got no end of problems here - I reckon I'm spending more time fixing issues in Vista than using it!

 

[johngalt]

Well, the file in the error above shows it is supposed ot be located in C:\ProgramData....did you move that too?

 

[Tenoq]

Negative - just moved the Users folder. I tried the fixes listed to replace those files with the originals and that's the error(s) I get. Looks like the catalog doesn't match the Windows version or something - who knows.

Regardless, installing the new preview version seems to have removed those files and I assume put them somewhere else. I haven't bothered really looking into it now; just happy it works again.