Thank you, Thank you!
I have been trying for a week to solve this and it was the little warning on this page re Drive letters A or B that did it. I had assigned a partition as Drive A and no matter what I did in Indexing Options searching did not happen. Reassigned the partition as F and BINGO! It would have been so LOGICAL for Indexing Options to pop up and tell me it was not going to do what I was asking, but no such alert.
I've been trying to find a way to *prevent* Windows from indexing connected, external drives. Perhaps it's a misconception on my part, but as much as I've come to rely on Windows Key + F to search and will continue to do so to find stuff in the C drive, I feel that the added indexing of external drives is slowing down this vintage, but still functioning Core2duo.
Hello Chaloots, and welcome to Seven Forums. :)
Normally, removable drives are not added to the Index by default in Windows 7.
There's a group policy available to prevent removable drives from being added to the Index, but it's only available in Windows 8.1 and Windows 10.
Disable Adding Removable Drives to Index and Libraries in Windows 10 Hardware Drivers Tutorials
Last edited by Brink; 05 Jan 2018 at 13:04.
Thanks for the prompt and pertinent reply, Brink. I know for a fact that Group Policy isn't available with my particular version of W7. With that in mind I'm leaning towards disabling indexing altogether, relying instead on a couple of utilities (SwiftSearch & UltraFileSearch) mentioned in a different thread here.
grazie
Personally, I disable the index. It takes a bit longer for search results, but you don't have to worry about if the index is currently up to date yet or not.
One more question if I may, Brink---what, if any, consequences will the disabling indexing in Windows 7 have on future attempts to use Windows + F key?
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