Win 7 "search programs and files"

[Parmenides]

Hey, i'm just wondering how I can give a little feedback for my start menu's nice feature where you just type the program you want. How do I get it to index some .exe I have, while ignoring some installer/uninstaller .exe that I don't want showing up? I often get a program's installer/uninstaller but not the the installed .exe itself.

 

[Bahamut]

Click Start, type indexing and then wait a moment for that item to appear, Indexing Options. Select it and click Advanced for searching with the inclusions/exclusions by extensions you're focusing on.

 

[bigdogchris]

Yes that will work but you can't include some .exe's and not others. What you can do is move all of your custom programs/.exe's that you don't want to index, out of the indexed file locations, to a location that does not have indexing. You could create a folder on your C:\ root and put them in there, so they don't get indexed.

 

[Parmenides]

Thanks a lot. I'll try this out when I get on my computer tonight!