vista - search history with deleted files

[kenny]

hi, hope some of you can help. im running vista on my pc, and seem to be showing files on search i.e recently changed etc, now these files have been already deleted. they still show on the start - search, and in the recently changed folder. ive tried to delete them but always says 'item not found' , of course as its deleted.

ive tried to restore the files to no avail, question is tho how do i delete them from the windows history?

any help much aprreciated

kenny - not too clued up on pc's :(

[AlanHo]

I noticed this behaviour some time ago.

Generally - when Vista search finds a deleted file it will offer to restore it if it is still residing in the Recycle bin.

If it has already been deleted from the recycle bin you get a message that the link is to a deleted file and you are asked whether you wish to remove the link. If you click on the button to remove the link the file is removed from the search data base and will not be found in subsequent searches.

I do not know of any way to automatically remove deleted files from the search data base index but would be interested to learn if this is indeed possible. If it is a major problem on a machine where lots of files are deleted regularly I suppose you could resort to deleting the search index and asking Vista to re-index your files all over again. Definitely not worth the bother in my case.

[ɹəuəllıʍ ʇɐb]

question is tho how do i delete them from the windows history?

Use CCleaner.