Adding Indexing Locations in Windows Vista

At the Indexing Option Screen in the Windows 7 you are enabled to configure which sections of your hard drive will be indexed or not. Indexing file on your PC enables windows to perform quick searches on the locations where different files have been indexed. Although the whole drive can be indexed but Microsoft recommends that only those folders that are searched most frequently should be indexed.

Items can be easily included in the indexes by just including folders in the libraries. The contents of those folders are indexed automatically once you have done this.
Windows Vista, as you would know by now, has a new built-in searching engine that is completely incorporated into the operating system, but all the directories are not indexed by default. If you want to add a new directory to be indexed, you would have to follow the following set of steps.

First to get to the indexing service panels you just have to type index into the start menu search box, and press the enter key. After this an indexing options window will be opened in this Indexing Options window, click the Modify button. Now a next screen will be opened on this next screen, click Show all Locations option.

Now you can actually figure out which folders you want to index and which you don’t. Just put a checkbox next to the locations of all the folders you want to index.

Note that it is strongly recommended that you should not index your whole computer, because it will make indexing process very slow. Only index locations where you actually store data files and are frequently used by you. For example the files like ‘Program Files’ should not be indexed because you don’t really store your data in it that frequently.