WINDOWS 7 SEARCH FOR SYSTEM FILES WINDOWS

If you are having problems with Windows search or something has become corrupted, you can rebuild the index by clicking the Rebuild button. Here you can choose to index encrypted files and other options like treating similar words with diacritics as different words. You can also click on Index Settings to modify some of the settings for the Search Indexer. If you know the file contains only text, make sure to select the second radio button. Then select it and choose whether you want to index just the properties or the properties and the file contents.

If the file extension is not in the list, go ahead and add it at the bottom. You can do this by clicking on the Advanced button on the main Indexing Options screen. If you have noticed that certain files are not being indexed by search indexer even though they are included in the search locations, you may have to add the file type. You can check off any drive or folder that you would like to include in the index.Дepending on how many files and folders are in a location, it could take some time for search indexer to index everything. Any network drive or external hard drive will show up in the list of possible locations. To add a new location to the index, click on the Modify button. Below that, you will see a list of all the locations that have been included for indexing. At the top, youвЂ™ll see the total number of items that have currently been indexed on your computer. In Windows 10, youвЂ™ll click on Change how Windows searches.

This will bring up the Indexing Options dialog.

Windows 7 search for system files