Search Results wrong after drive letter changes

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Hello,

I moved some drives around in my system so a few of my drive letters changed. Now all the search results on Start 10 are still pointing to the old drive letters, causing the shortcuts to not work. This only happens in search, if I navigate to All Programs the links work correctly.

How do I rebuild the search database?

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Reply #2 from Stardock Forums Top

Search uses the standard Windows Indexing service.  You may need to rebuild the index for that if you have moved lots of things.

Start11 - Customize the Start Menu and Taskbar in Windows 10/11.
Reply #3 from Stardock Forums Top

Thanks guys, letting the computer idle overnight solved the problem. I guess the Windows search index was rebuilt while I wasn't using the system.