Windows 7 Start Menu Search is not indexing?

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Published on 2010-05-01T12:04:46Z Indexed on 2010/05/01 12:09 UTC
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I upgraded my Vista Ultimate to Win 7 Professional.

I have configured all the search indexing settings, however search box in the start menu does not bring any result at all in the indexed folders. It says a few thousands of files are indexed but nothing appears in start menu search.

Any ideas?

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