You can also disable other extensions that aren't associated with useful content: bak, chk, old, gid, prv, wbk, dll. The default excluded extensions are: tmp, temp, moztmp, log, pst, ost, oab, nk2, dat, 000, pf, xml, obj, pdb, tlb, pcc, pch, exp, res, map, sconsign, msf. There's no option for this in the interface, but you can edit this Registry key and add other extensions you want to exclude. Some examples:Ĭ:\Program Files\ (don't exclude it if you use Google Desktop to launch apps)Ĭ:\Windows\ (don't exclude it if you use Google Desktop to launch apps) Since Google Desktop tries to index files from your entire hard disk, it's important to exclude the folders that don't contain useful files for a desktop search engine. Google Desktop can also search Microsoft Outlook's Calendar, Contacts, Tasks, Journal, and Notes, so disable these search types if you're satisfied with Outlook's search options. If you use Outlook or other email clients and you don't want to index the email messages from your computer, disable the "email" options. "Web history" indexes all the web pages that you load in Internet Explorer and Firefox, so it uses a lot of disk space. * Disable the search types you don't find useful. To enable the indexing of your files, right click on the system tray icon, select "Options" and click on the check box next to "Enable Enhanced Content Indexing". Google Desktop will only index the shortcuts from the Start Menu, the entries from Control Panel. If you don't need the sidebar with gadgets, disable the option from Google Desktop's setup wizard.
#Make lookeen desktop start on boot install#
When you install Google Desktop 5.5 for Windows, the enhanced search option is disabled and you should leave it that way for now. I thought this is a good opportunity to list some ways you could improve Google Desktop's performance, especially if you want to use it as a search engine and not as a widget engine. The latest version of Google Desktop no longer enables by default the desktop search engine probably because it uses too many resources.
0 kommentar(er)
