In addition to using Spotlight's privacy list, a simple name extension can keep Spotlight from indexing specific files and folders. Topher, an avid Mac user for the past 15 years, has been a ...

If you want to enable indexing on a Windows file server, you will need to start by installing the Windows Search Service. To do so, open Server Manager and then choose the Add Roles and Features ...

In Windows OS, the process of looking at files, email messages, and other content on your PC and cataloging their information, such as the words and metadata in them, is termed Indexing. Indexing the ...

In this article, we will demonstrate how you can hide files and folders from your Search Results in Windows 11 or Windows 10. There is a built-in feature to sync in and index files on the PC and ...

Let’s face it: Searching your PC for files within Windows has always been mildly confusing, especially with several options for searching right within Windows 10 and 11. But if you’re convinced that a ...

The Google Webmaster Central blog finally blogged Google is now indexing the content of files that some SWF files load externally, technically from “external resource loading”. Flash often loads ...

If you don’t know where you keep storing your data on your computer, you need a file indexing facility on your Windows machine. If you don’t know where you keep storing your data on your computer, you ...

Index Files Search Words Lite (free) is a program which does the job it's supposed to do--indexing files and letting you search for them--but really seems to be more a "demo" than a "lite". What it ...