
It will go through your Start Menu, the User Folder, and any of your offline files. Windows desktop search in Windows 7 has a general idea of which locations and folders need to be indexed.

You might want the rebuild to run when you are not using the computer, as it could slow down your PC a bit while the process is taking place.

Indexing will take some time, but once it is complete, you shouldn’t have any further problems with Windows 7 search not working (for now).
