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How do I "deselect all" from this File Types list? I only want to index .exe from my portable apps folder; deselecting file types one by one is not an option as there are hundreds. Thanks

Hi, This is my first day with Windows 11 and I'm already having a lot of trouble with a few niche things that are pretty important to my workflow. First: if I open the Photos app, for example, the first window opens where I want it to, but any subsequent photos I open while the first is open...

Search button on taskbar, and typing in start menu/start screen no longer works. It does nothing. At the same time, Timeline history does not show up. (even if it's enabled on settings) I tried searching online methods such as windows troubleshooter, resetting index, sfc command, powershell...

I don't know what's going on, but for some reason my Music and Pictures folders are not listed in the Index. Admittedly, all my personal folders are actually being stored in Onedrive, but the default folders reflect that locations change, and my Documents folder, also in Onedrive, is being...

Last year I obtained a free Windows 8 laptop from my neighbor (can't complain about that!). It has worked very well for me until recent months. For whatever reason, the file explorer will randomly stop showing all folders in the side bar and (often) the main window. All I can see is little...

Search in Windows Server 2016 is very weak, For example, as I tried to search “Power”, the “power option” is not populated! What could be the issue here? Is there a way to enhance the search in Windows Server 2016?

Quick access contains the folders: Documents, Music, Pictures, Video On the right side of the window, there is a Quick access search field. Entering a search will find matching files in 3 folders but not matching files in the Pictures folder. If I navigate directly to the Pictures folder then...

There's something that's been bugging me and costs me time for my works. The windows search bar prioritizes folders instead of applications, how can I change this? Thank you! :)

Hi All Expert, Good Day. I have a user which when she search for file/doc in server network NAS is very slow, but other users pc was fast. But when she search for file/doc on her whole C drive was slow but still fine, I would like to check if indexing help to solve the slowness in searching...

hi, im having problems searching within files in win10. ive tried indexing the directory, adding the extension and clicking the search within files tab but it doesnt work. any suggestions?

Hey there, I'm an IT Technician at a secondary school currently setting up Windows 10 for our students. Currently they're all using 7 and we have a pre-configured image which we roll out to all our computers using pxe, this is set up with many pre-installed programs and settings. We're...

Consider an example directory containing: IMG_0209.JPG IMG_0210.JPG Some_PDF-numKK.pdf If I want to find the pdf, and happen to remember that it had "numKK" in the filename, I might reasonably search "numKK" and expect to find it. In practice though, this will return 0 results. A search for...

I have a Seagate Backup Plus 8TB Desktop USB External Hard Drive on my Win 7 ASUS G73S laptop . It works well , just for one problem . If I don't access a directory on it for a few minutes , then when I do , the file display can take quite a while to come up , while I get a slow advancing green...

Since my upgrade to Windows 10240 from 8.1, file search (windows key + search string) returns no results. Rebuilt index from scratch. Not working. Any hint?

In this episode Chris Risner and Haishi Bai are joined by Link Removed, Sr Program Manager working on Azure DocumentDB. Ryan joins us to give us an update on what DocumentDB's been doing since he was Link Removed. Ryan begins by giving a brief overview of what DocumentDB is and why it's...

i recently began using win 7 64 ultimate sp1 from win xp sp3 and one of the first things i noticed is that if i don't move the mouse for about 1-2 minutes the red led on my computer flashes all the time! and there's sound like the harddisks are being used.. even now as i write it's doing this...

This is a minor issue but it is bugging me. I have uninstalled "HP Coolsense" from my PC and can't find a reference to it anywhere. But it still shows up in my windows search (the one that shows up from the right) . . with an icon and everything (unfortunately I can't snip that but I could the...

Hello, I was referred here thru windowsbbs.com about this mysterious desktop popup appearing at random, usually after booting to windows 7 Home Premium (64 bit). Have no idea where it is originates. Just wondered if anyone knows how to track this down? It is grey box stating: The application...

Search is not properly working after upgrading to Windows 8.1. To get the search effectively working, I have to manually run the indexing option. The indexing takes for long time but this is not the issue. The issue is that the entire indexing results disappears when I turn my PC off!!

In my system, the size of each and every file and folder displaying the memory occupied in an odd way. here is a screen shot of my problem. please help me how to rectify it.