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Hello.
I just want to say, for the sake of anybody who finds this on Google, that I fixed it. The trick is to delete all files related to search indexing, located by default at:
C:\ProgramData\Microsoft\Search\Data\Applications\Windows
and:
C:\ProgramData\Microsoft\Search\Data\Temp
Delete all files and folders in these directories (you might want to make a backup, I did, but it proved unnecessary).
Then, change the service back to starting automatically. You still can't start the service until you reboot, at which time Windows will rebuild the index.
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