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Posted by Jordan "Jmonkey on July 9, 2006, 3:27 pm
Please log in for more thread options Their contents are not indexed actually. Rather complicated to go into
detail... but it is just a pointer to their location on your hard drive. When
the computer indexes your files, it creates a simple database like a search
engine for the internet would to make the searches faster. When you type in
something, the program uses what you typed to search a text database on your
computer. It returns the name and location much faster when it is indexed
through Windows Desktop Search. And when it returns your search, it can
display their contents by a linked list, which can be compared to a shortcut
on your desktop. When you create a shortcut, it doesn't create a whole new
file, just a link to the location of that file. In programming terms, we call
them "pointers" or "linked-lists"--too complicated to get in to. But those
are the "nodes" of the objects...very very small "references"; a key word
that you type in the box that relates to something in it will find that file,
which makes the search all that much faster. Best bet to relate this is to
use a search engine such as the one in the upper right corner of this website
and see how fast it can find something. That's what a database does, except
Microsoft's is much larger. By occasional indexing of the Search program, new
files are continuously added to the database enabling you to find them. If
databases and search engines did not exist, it would take forever to find a
file..."like finding a needle in a hay 'stack' ".
"asdf" wrote:
> as a matter of fact i want only the names for all of my files indexed not
> their
> contents.
>
> >I only want the names of my pdf, txt, doc, htm, html files indexed and not
> >their contents.
> > Under Desktop Search->Advanced there is a way of entering the extension of
> > the files
> > whose contents i don't want indexed. However when i try to enter the
> > extensions above
> > upon my opening the options dialog again the settings are not saved. How
> > can i
> > accomplish the above.
> >
> > thank you
> >
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