Comments on: Instant Search is not available when Outlook is running with administrator permissions

By: Sammist Ngumii

Sammist Ngumii — Tue, 07 Nov 2017 14:53:00 +0000

In reply to The Fly. Hey, This solution worked out, but at some point it reset the indexing status back to the no. of items that needed indexing.

By: DeerSpotter

DeerSpotter — Tue, 26 Sep 2017 13:15:00 +0000

In reply to Coop. whoever is reading this, dont drag out outlook.exe into desktop, if you delete .exe by accident you will never be able to start outlook again. Instead right click on the .exe and send to desktop (create shortcut) this way you can delete it and never worry.

By: standuncan

standuncan — Sun, 12 Feb 2017 03:11:00 +0000

I have a similar problem, but worse. I have the common problem of not being able to do a search because I have administrative permissions, so following your advice I went to program, right clicked on it, went to properties, but in my version (2013, different from yours), there was no “Administrator” button to check. However, I looked around under other tabs and found administrative controls and unchecked all of them. But after that I am no longer even able to open the program because i no longer have administrative control. What next?

By: Craig Hines

Craig Hines — Mon, 31 Oct 2016 20:06:00 +0000

In reply to Koen from Belgium.

Agree – this applies to Windows 10 too. Other mail applications work in Windows 10, Microsoft can’t make a Microsoft product work in Windows 10. Also,, random Windows updates reset the “Run as admin” status on every PC in the Office.

By: The Fly

The Fly — Wed, 12 Oct 2016 15:20:00 +0000

Ok, I have been looking for the solution to this for years. YES! YEARS!!!!, for one reason or another and busy at the office, and being my system that was affected, i never followed through – until TODAY.
Here is what i am running on my system: Windows 7 64bit with MS Office 2010 (obviously Outlook 2010).
Go to > Explorer> C drive> Program Files (I have 64bit version)>Microsoft Office >Office14 and locate Outlook.exe. Right click on it and go to properties. Click on Compatibility tab and on the Privilege Level, near the bottom of the tab option, uncheck “Run this program as administrator”.
I remember finding this solution in the past, but i had changed the properties of the Outlook desktop shortcut, but when I launched Outlook, it always started with the Admin privilege level, meaning the setting was not saved before for whatever reason, but when i did it from the Program Files…VIOLA!!
I hope this helps someone as i know how painful it was to wait forever to find what I was looking for in Outlook.