When you??™re done, click OK, and then close the Indexing Options window.
Although the settings will take effect right away, it??™ll take some time for
Windows to rebuild the index to the point where these settings will make
any difference in search results. (It could be minutes or days, depending on
what you??™ve selected.)
Search outside the index
Vista??™s search index makes searches much faster, but at a price: the search
results are often incomplete. This is particularly true on removable drives;
even though you may??™ve instructed Windows to index these drives, it won??™t
do so when they??™re not connected, and may even purge the index of their
contents when you disconnect them.
Not that big a deal, right?
Wrong. When you conduct a search on a location that??™s supposed to be in
the index, yet contains no indexed files, your searches will turn up empty.
This means you can be looking at a folder full of files, say, that start with s,
but when you type s*.* in the Search box, you get nothing.
The solution is to click the Advanced Search button under the Search box.
You don??™t see Advanced Search? When the search is complete, scroll to the
bottom of the search results, and under Did you find what you were searching
for?, click Advanced Search. Or, if you don??™t want to wait for the search
to finish, click the Search Tools drop-down, select Search Pane, and then
click Advanced Search.
Once the Advanced Search pane (Figure 2-20) is open, turn on the Include
non-indexed, hidden, and system files (might be slow) option, and then
watch as Windows populates your window with up-to-date search results.
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