Figure 2-18. Use the Indexed Locations window to instruct Windows to include more
folders in your searches
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Just place a checkmark next to each file type you want to index; if you??™re
serious about getting complete results, you??™ll want to check them all. Why?
Say you??™re looking for a DLL file in the Windows\System32 folder and you
decide to use the Search tool to find the file. So, you click the Search box
and type, say, mapi32.dll. Now, if DLL files aren??™t indexed, the search
results will be empty, erroneously indicating that the file doesn??™t exist!
Of course, the more file types you index, the larger the index becomes, and
the longer your searches might take. One way to mitigate this is to select the
Index Properties Only option, but this will only take you so far.
You see, the Filter Description column shows you exactly how much Vista
knows about any particular file; if it says File Properties filter or Null filter??”
as it does for DLL files??”Windows is able to index the file??™s name, date,
and size, but not much else. Only if it says something more specific, such
as Plain Text filter for text files, or Microsoft Office Filter for Excel
spreadsheets, will Windows bother opening the file to index its contents.
Figure 2-19. Windows won??™t index many types of files unless you specifically enable
indexing for them here
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So, even if you select the Index Properties and File Contents option here,
you won??™t be indexing the contents of that many files.
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