Can indexed locations be deleted

To do this, click the Modify button to display the Indexed Locations dialog box. See Figure 2. The top panel portion of the dialog box is where you select or deselect items to be included in the index. The bottom portion shows you a summary of the items you selected in the top portion. You may find it odd that only two checkboxes are selected in the upper panel, and yet there are six selected locations in the bottom panel.

This is because some of the folders in the lower panel are buried under the right-pointing arrow of the C: disk in the upper panel. This means you can "drill down" and select subfolders in the top portion of the dialog box and those selected items still appear in the bottom portion. Clear the check box next to the folder's name again, in the top portion of the dialog box and it is then removed from the bottom portion of the dialog box.

When you click OK, the folder is removed from the index. This tip applies to Windows 7 and Barry has been a computer professional for over 35 years, working in different positions such as technical team leader, project manager, and software developer.

He is currently a software engineer with an emphasis on developing custom applications under Microsoft Windows. When not working with Windows or writing Tips, Barry is an amateur writer. His first non-fiction book is titled "A Chronological Commentary of Revelation. You may want to customize your account so that it uses a picture of your own choosing. This tip tells you how to change It's possible to rename multiple files at the same time, but the new names of the files may leave a bit to be desired.

A common operation within Windows is to move files and folders from one location to another. Here are the two major ways Brink, Jun 7, Thanks, Brink. When I do that, nothing shows up in the top pane. I've dug around in the file tree in the top pane but couldn't find the directory in the Indexing app where these things are located.

Gatore, Jun 8, Do you see anything like below? Brink, Jun 8, The second pic shows what I see when I click on any of the DesktopBackground folders. I get nothing like what your pictures look like. Nothing else happens. If it's not affecting anything, I am happy to leave it. But all those folders just didn't look right. Add or Remove Search Index Locations in Windows 10 You might see if rebuilding the index may help since they don't show you a path in the top section when selected in the bottom.

When you open the Control Panel, make sure it's in "Icons" view. The link in step 1 can show you how to if needed. Sorry this didn't help. Thanks for your feedback. Choose where you want to search below Search Search the Community.

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