The files are chaotic and scattered all over the place. I have an external hard drive with hundreds of folders and subfolders because I have backed up the entire hard drives of like five different computers. OK, here is what I want to do in Vista that I used to be able to do in XP: During the next indexing cycle, your changes will either be added or removed from the index. To add new file types, type the name of the file extension and click Add new extension button.Īfter adding the new file type, you can set how the file will be indexed and click OK twice to close the Indexing Options window. You can also select how the file should be indexed (circled in screen shot below) by Index Properties Only or Index Properties and File Contents. Here, you can add or remove known file types by checking or unchecking the box next to the file type. In the Advanced Options window, click on the File Types tab.
Note: Indexing Options can also be found in the Control Panel.
Then in the Indexing Options dialog box, click on the Advanced button. To make modifications for file types in the index, press Win+R or click on Start \ Run… to open the Run window and type Unlike previous versions of Windows, you have more control over what file types you want included or excluded during searches. Great question! I never considered modifying Vista's indexing capabilities with adding or removing files types for searches.
