To improve your search files on your computer, Windows reference background content of a number of folders on your hard disk in an index, like a sort of directory. When searching for a file using the search field of the Start menu or Windows Explorer, Windows runs then this book which allows him to give you results faster than if it were to examine your hard drives.
To speed up the indexing of your files, but file searches and improve the relevance of results returned by Windows, you can fine tune the indexing.
Add folders to index:
Only a few well-defined folders are indexed by Windows. It is therefore possible that the search misses your documents. You can happily add folders to the index to either integrated in the research.
- Click the Start button and then click Control Panel.
- In the search field, type indexing.
- Then click Indexing Options.
- In the window that opens, click the Edit button.
- The above list refers your discs. Double click it to unroll. Check the boxes before then to integrate the files to index and thus take into account when searching.
- Then click the OK button and then click Close. The folders specified are then added to the search index. Note that the indexing of these new elements can take time if you have many files.
- Note that you can similarly remove the index files by unchecking the boxes that are in front of their names.
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