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Correct way to disable indexing in Windows 7
What's the best way to disable indexing in Windows 7?
All of the articles that I've found online instruct me to access services.msc and disable the Windows Search service. However, even after I did ...
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Windows 7 x64 Pro not indexing PDF content?
In an attemp to get rid of all the paper clutter that I receive each day, I started scanning and ORCing all my important documents last year. I was using Windows Desktop Search on Vista to index my ...
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Is there a software that can index the contents of the registry for quick lookups?
Searching in the Windows registry can be ve------ry------ lo----ng.
Is there some tool available that can index the contents of the whole registry, or contents of a single hive, such that fast ...
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Can I change the order of the search results in the Windows 7 start menu?
Is it possible to change the sort order of the search results in the Windows 7 start menu? I'd like to either have them completely unsorted by the type of result they are or have files appear before ...
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Efficient way to index text files
I have a series of text files I'm downloading from a Yahoo Group and I'd like to tag them and index them. What program will help me do this?
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Can I do a “one-time” file content search in Windows Server 2008 without adding the folder to the index?
Can I search for files which contain a specific string in a folder if that folder is not in the search index?
So, lets say folder 'textFiles' is not in the index. I navigate to this folder in Windows ...
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How to get Google Desktop to index searchable pdf's
I've got a scanner that converts documents to pdfs. The pdf that gets produced is searchable. However when google desktop indexes the file it doesn't appear to be indexing any of the contents of ...
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Can I force full speed to the indexing service of Windows?
On windows 7 there's 'pause' and there's 'indexing speed is reduced due to user activity' but what if one wants full speed during desktop activity?
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How to have Windows 7 index Thunderbird 3 messages?
How can I have Windows 7 index my Thunderbird 3 email messages?
According to this article, this should be possible.
"Integration With Windows Search
(Windows 7/Vista)
On first start, ...
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What are the popular file indexing engines on Linux? [closed]
It would be nice if you can share your experience on the pros and cons of each of them. Personally I only know Google Desktop and Beagle, and I haven't really used them. I mainly store my files on ...
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Why can't I index a SUBST'd drive in Windows7?
I've got a SUBST for a folder to drive letter P:
I have noticed that exploring these folders from P: is now INCREDIBLY slow, taking up to a minute sometimes to show files. I'm showing them as general ...
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Making an index in Apple iWork Pages
Is it possible to make an index in an IWork Pages document?
By index I mean marking words as index worthy and at the end of the document having an alphabetical list of those words and the pages where ...
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Windows 7 search does not return results from indexed folders
I am experiencing this issue over and over again and I just cannot seem to find the answer. It doesn't make sense, but search simply does not return results from folders that certainly have these ...
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Disable / Turn Off Windows 7 Search Prompt / Warning Banner About Indexing
Whenever a search is performed in Windows 7 on a folder that is not indexed, Windows throws up a banner at the top of the Explorer window (below the address bar) blabbing about Indexing and asking you ...
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Searching network drive without indexing - win xp
I believe someone else asked that question in relation to Windows 7 but if I want to search a network drive in Win XP, is there a way to do it without the need to index the files?
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Search network drive without indexing it
Is legacy search available at all in Windows 7?
Indexing local drive is fine but indexing mapped network drive containing dozens of GBs is not on as is not searching common network locations all the ...
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Faster grepping through lots of bulky text files
I have log files that are 500 mb each and there are 200 of such files.
I need to grep certain patterns inside these files. But this takes up a lot of time!
Is there a (open source) software that can ...
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Need text file indexing software
I have 10 HDD. I using WhereIsIt software to index all files. I have many text file larger than 100KB and I want index text file content. But it only support from 4KB to 32KB.
I moving to Google ...
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How to Prevent Spotlight from Indexing Non-Apps in /Applications Directory?
The only thing I need indexed in the /Applications folder are the .app files.
Is there any way to setup a filter to have mds or Spotlight ignore everything in /Applications except .apps?
Otherwise, ...
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What are SNMP indices?
I'm trying to find out what is meant by SNMP indices. I read the following statement on wiki:
Index assignments for an SNMP device
instance may change from poll to poll
mostly as a result of ...
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Why isn't OS X Spotlight or Finder finding a file by content that I know exists?
I've got several files in a few folders that I know contain a word, say "foo". I've manually found some of those files, but neither Spotlight or Finder's search is showing those files as matches nor ...
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Remove any Windows 7 indexing cache
I've disabled the file indexing service in Windows 7 (as per this answer) which worked like a charm.
My questions are:
Does disabling the service also remove any existing cache? The answer linked ...
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How to Tell if Folder is Indexed
Is there an easy way to tell if Windows has indexed a folder or not (Windows 7). Or, is there a list of all indexed folders?
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Fine tuning Windows 7 indexing
Is it possible to fine tune indexing to do things like:
don't index hidden files/directories
don't index sub-dirs/files of a certain pattern, e.g always ignore folders named "_svn"
I would rather ...
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Remove colons (:) from illustration index in Microsoft Word 2010?
How can I remove all the : from illustration index in Word 2010?
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FIG. 2.5: Ilustração da Utilização do RDF com o RDFS 28
But I need this:
FIG. ...
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Windows indexing service: how do I make it so network shares can be searched?
I have a bunch of folders on a network share with thousands of files in them (application logfiles). I would like to be able to search these by filename quickly and eventually programmatically ...
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What cache makes a file search faster for the second time exactly?
On Windows on a HDD partition with Total Commander, if I make a file search on the file system root e.g. C:\, it will take considerable time: it display as it walks the entire directory structure ...
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Indexing text file content with command line query
I take daily notes in a plaintext file labeled with date in the YYYYMMDD format. These files are no more than 100 lines long, and are written in a blog style format.
I'd like to be able search these ...
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Windows 7: prevent indexing on newly attached external drives
Windows Search / Indexing is a valuable service when used on your own internal drives and in some cases on regularly attached external (resource / expansion) drives. The problem is that I might ...
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Outlook 2010 PST not indexing
I've had this problem for months: Outlook is unable to search recent items in the inbox.
I was running Outlook 2010 Beta. I've just moved to the Trial version, hoping to solve the issue. I have tons ...
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In MS Word 2010, how do I use different styles for different indexes?
I'm using the \f switch in Microsoft Word 2010 to create multiple indexes. I need to style these indexes differently from one another, but I'm unable to work out how to apply different styles to these ...
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Solution to archive and search PDF files on a NAS
In my company we have a lot of customer information saved in .pdf files which are stored on a QNAPÂ NAS.
I want to be able to do a quick search for information inside the .pdf, like Contract Numbers ...
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Estimate size of Windows Search index
I have to index a rather large amount of data with Windows Search, so I wanted to have an estimation of index size. I've indexed a subset of data (about 60GB; 13e6 pages of text data each about ...
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Windows 7 search of NAS devices
I have a ReadyNas Duo both at home and at work. I find that it is difficult to perform quick searches of the data, looking for files with keywords in them. Windows search does not seem to want to ...
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Search content of files with unknown extension
i have the problem that Windows Server 2008 does not seem to search through the content of files with a unknown extension(csv). How can i change this?
I had already installed the indexing service Role ...
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Windows Vista not indexing files
I'm using Windows Vista's search index service to quickly launch programs by typing "windows key" +"name of program".
However I'm having a hard time trying to understand why certain files won't ...
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Utility to search the content of external hard disk (if possible index it in advance)? [duplicate]
Possible Duplicate:
Searching through txt, pdf and doc files
How to search my contents in my portable hard disk quickly (just like a google desktop)? having lots of materials in the ...
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Is there an Excel function to create a hash value?
I'm working with a number of data lists that are keyed by document name. The document names, while very descriptive, are quite cumbersome if I need to view them on (up to 256 bytes is a lot of real ...
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Is there a Keyboard-Shortcut for updating all fields, tocs and indexes in MS Word 2011 Mac OS X?
I know it's possible to have MS Word 2011 update all fields before printing a document but I would like to be able to update the fields whenever I feel the need to. Is there a keyboard short cut for ...
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How to find the index of a word in a string in bash?
In bash script,
I have a string which contains several words separated by one or more than one spaces.
ie:
Name Age Sex ID Address
If I want to find any of the word, for instance I want ...
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Trouble with LibreOffice index and styles
I have a problem with creating an index to a document: it was not created from me, and it had the headers of the chapters as normal text, without using styles. I applied styles (Header 1, 2, 3 and ...
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How do I apply two styles in the same line in LibreOffice?
Problem:
How do I apply two styles in the same line in LibreOffice?
The main problem is that I need two different styles:
one for the index and
one that is not supposed to appear in the index
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What does Windows Indexing do
I am just wondering what does Windows Indexing do? I run Windows XP SP3 Home at my place and was wondering special in Win7 what does it do?
I know it helps searching but how?
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Monitor Outlook's indexing feature?
I'm using Outlook 2010, and I need to find all emails that match a keyword.
I get the message, "Search results may be incomplete because items are still being indexed. Click here for more details." ...
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Freeware / Open Source Disk Indexer / Catalogizer
I'm looking for an index-creation software.
I have a lot of CD's which I need indexed and catalogized. I want to see the content of the cd in the index.
I've been using SuperCat previously, now I'm ...
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How to make index of all files in directory, including subdirectiories and contents of ZIP files?
I need to make list of all files and folders in directory and its subdirectories, including contents of ZIP files.
Is there any program that can create nice list of contents?
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Dragging the index formula down when using arrays
On this older page, Dan O'Day provides and excellent excel formula to assist with looking up and returning multiple reference values for a given key in separate columns. The formula is:
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Disabling Indexing in Windows XP
A users computer is being bogged down during the workday by repeated indexing. I want to disable this at the cost of slower searches. I disabled the service entirely in services.msc. I right ...
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where is indexes stored in NTFS when enable it?
When we enable indexing in NTFS Partition , where is saved?
How many bits were used?
MSDN says:
Several new NTFS5 features rely on a fundamental NTFS feature called attribute indexing.
For ...
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excel index match do not ignore 0's
I have a function =INDEX(Database!E$5:E$50,MATCH(TRUE,INDEX((Database!E$5:E$50<>0),0),0))
that searches a column, finds the first number and returns it. Right now it is ignoring cells in the ...
