[Community-BUG] Indexing Not working

angry-bender / forensicssetup

An open source project aimed to replicate the Windows SIFT Machine and tools used during SANS Courses minus any payware software.

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[Community-BUG] Indexing Not working #32

Closed angry-bender closed 3 years ago

angry-bender commented 3 years ago

Describe the bug Indexing of applications not working, thanks to garbage windows 10 search. Everything is basically the main way to search

To Reproduce Steps to reproduce the behavior:

Install, Search for preferch parser or mozilla, and watch windows 10 fail to index... beacuse windows

Expected behavior

Windows 10 actually at least indexes shortcuts on the desktop and sub-directories

Desktop (please complete the following information):

OS: 20H2

angry-bender commented 3 years ago

After research, this needs a dll to interact with the System Indexing within windows. This really, means that in reality somone is going to need to use a GUI to change this.

https://stackoverflow.com/questions/65784249/how-to-query-and-add-if-not-listed-a-location-to-windows-10-search-index-using

This really goes beyond the scope of automation. Will add an instruction on the readme, to fix indexing