Windows Vista Indexing and Outlook 2007 Search

If you are having trouble finding newest items in your search on Windows Vista, you are not alone. Check the following links for known issues from Microsoft Support. It is a known problem that search indexing may stop on Windows Vista. Here's a list of possible reasons along with solutions:

You cannot search RTF e-mail messages in Outlook 2007
http://support.microsoft.com/default.aspx?scid=kb;EN-US;927595

You cannot index e-mail messages or search e-mail messages when you run Outlook 2007 by using elevated user rights on a computer that is running Windows Vista
http://support.microsoft.com/default.aspx?scid=kb;EN-US;923937

How to troubleshoot performance issues in Outlook 2007
http://support.microsoft.com/kb/940226

No results are returned when you search for e-mail items after you enable Instant Search in Outlook 2007
http://support.microsoft.com/kb/927676

For those adventurous souls, here are some last resort suggestions for search problems in Outlook 2007. May be one of them can work for you...

• Ran scanost.exe (for Exchange account) and scanpst.exe (for local Archive folder) and fix errors
  
• Uncheck both Mailbox and Archive data files in Outlook search options. Restart Outlook
• Check both Mailbox and Archive data files in Outlook search options. Restart Outllok
• Rebuilt Index
• Restore Default from Indexing Options and reboot
• Ran %windir%\system32\fixmapi.exe and reboot, then ran Rebuild index