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Event ID 3099 — Windows Search

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Applies To: Windows Server 2008

The Windows Search service indexes information about the contents of your hard disk to facilitate your searches, making them much faster and more accurate.

Event Details

Product: Windows Operating System
ID: 3099
Source: Microsoft-Windows-Search
Version: 6.0
Symbolic Name: EVENT_NOTIFICATION_THREAD_EXIT_FAILED
Message: Unable to terminate notifications normally. Restart the service or contact Product Support.%1

Resolve

Stop and Restart the Windows Search service

To perform this procedure, you must have membership in Administrators, or you must have been delegated the appropriate authority.

To stop and restart the Windows Search service:

  1. Click Start, point to All Programs, and then click Accessories.
  2. Right-click Command Prompt, and then click Run as administrator.
  3. If the User Account Control dialog box appears, confirm that the action it displays is what you want, and then click Continue.
  4. At the command prompt, type **net stop wsearch **to stop the Windows Search service.
  5. Restart the Windows Search service by typing net start wsearch.

Verify

To verify that files are being indexed:

  1. Click Start and then click Run.
  2. In the Run dialog box, type notepad.exe. Notepad should open.
  3. Type an unusual keyword or phrase in the new document, and then save the file to your My Documents directory or to another directory that is being indexed.
  4. Click Start, and then type your new keyword or phrase in the Search box. The file you created using Notepad should appear in the Search Results window.

Windows Search

File Services