Viewing Indexing Progress

You can view the progress of the indexing from the status message displayed in Indexing Options in Control Panel. When user activity is present on the system, the search engine throttles back so as not to interfere with what the user is doing (that is, indexing still goes on but at a slower pace). When this happens, the message "Indexing speed is reduced due to user activity" is displayed. When all indexed locations have been indexed and no more items remain in the gather queue, the message "Indexing complete" is displayed.

Note Clicking Pause causes the Windows Search service to stop indexing new content for 15 minutes.

You can also view indexing progress by using the Reliability and Performance Monitor. For example, the Search Indexer\Documents Filtered counter displays the number of documents that have been scanned for indexing, while the Search Indexer\Master Merge Progress counter indicates progress made during a master merge on a scale of 0 to 100 percent completed. Performance objects for monitoring the indexer include Search Indexer, Search Gatherer, and Search Gatherer Projects.