Comments on: How To Fix Outlook 2007 Search Problems

By: Brian G

Brian G — Fri, 02 Dec 2022 11:07:10 +0000

Alleluia.

The search in Outlook 2007 was painful because it searched the oldest first (2004 in my case) and displayed the newest last. By unchecking the folders check boxes in Instant Search, results are displayed instantly with the most recent first.

What was the point of instant search?!

By: S

Wed, 01 Aug 2018 22:22:22 +0000

Yay!
This worked for me and solved my Outlook 2007 search problem! :)

By: andrew

andrew — Wed, 04 Apr 2018 08:26:44 +0000

Totally awesome. Thank you. I have been searching for an answer to my problem for days. the scanpst.exe fixed my search in outlook 2016

By: parag

parag — Wed, 04 Oct 2017 18:28:03 +0000

I had Windows 10 with Outlook 2016 preinstalled, but had installed outlook 2007 over it and restored old .pst files and noticed outlook search not working. Step number 5 and 6 mentioned fixed the problem. Other steps had tried earlier but did not work. Thanks.

By: Siobhan O'Rorke

Siobhan O'Rorke — Thu, 06 Jul 2017 13:18:37 +0000

In reply to D. Try this one: How to Fix Outlook 2016 Search Problems

By: D

Thu, 29 Jun 2017 19:23:19 +0000

Sadly, none of the stuff above fixed. Anyone find actual fix? IMAP, Outlook 2016, Windows 10

By: Larry Crowell

Larry Crowell — Fri, 27 Jan 2017 20:01:48 +0000

My 10-year old Windows XP computer died so I’ve replaced it with a Windows 10 Pro computer. I installed my Microsoft Office Office Ultimate 2007 software suite. (Sidenote: had to set compatibility mode to Windows 8 for everything to work OK.) Retrieved my Outlook PersonalFolder.pst (about 2G) from my old computer disc and linked to it.

After that I had nothing but trouble from Outlook 2007 – search not working, stalling, corrupt.pst, etc. Finally discovered that Instant Search was enabled; don’t think it was on my old XP computer. Plus, it seemed that after I did anything with Outlook 2007 it wanted to index my .pst file and this took a long time, like 60 minutes.

After wasting too many hours, I disabled Instant Search, repaired my .pst file, moved a bunch of older stuff to an alternate .pst file, and compacted my .pst file (now about 1G).

Finally, everything is working OK. Searches now take longer, but because my Inbox and Calendar include only the current year the wait isn’t very long, and that’s way better than my problems with Instant Search.

Bottom line: Don’t enable Instant Search.

By: Rob Wise

Rob Wise — Wed, 11 May 2016 07:29:23 +0000

Instant search stopped working has cost me hours WIn 10 Outlook 2007 nothing works looks like I am purchasing a 3rd party add on – that does not rely on the MS indexing

By: Early Malaga

Early Malaga — Sun, 10 Apr 2016 00:11:26 +0000

What a disappointment, MSN are no longer the software provider we used to have at our side to be more productive. W10 and Office 365 is the worst ever tool available right now.
Is the idea to use other providers to solve the problems we never had before? Is MS part of them, are we consumers in the middle of the power of those than known more than us? I am thinking that moving away from our former heroes is right here.