Full System Scan Suddenly Takes Forever "File index service not ready yet. Plea

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In the morning, I started my PC and SAP began a full system scan and it still is running. However, I doubt it even started as I see this message "File index service not ready yet. Please wait...", I took a screenshot FYI

Is that normal? It never took hours for a full system scan to finish 

[hendy]

Sometimes it may take 30 to 40 minutes for the file index service to re-index after boot up.

Sometimes this also may be caused by file system issue, or the file index database itself corrupted.
 
You can try to download and run this utility:
https://secureaplus.secureage.com/download/RefreshFileIndex.exe
 
What it does:
1.       Run chkdsk /f after the computer rebooted. This is to check and fix the file system issue.
2.       Force the file index to refresh its internal database

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Thank you, the small utility RefreshFileIndex.exe did the trick. Now the scans are fast.

[hendy]

You are welcome.