How to index a hard drive on Windows 7?

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I want to index my 2 partitions made on my Windows 7 machine for better search performance. I did however, when I was prompted to index, not do so at the time. Any other way to do this?

Note: I would prefer doing it Windows way, not downloading some 3rd party program do so for me.

Rudolph

Posted 2013-12-02T20:03:37.143

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possible duplicate of Windows 8.1 search doesn't search drives other than C:∖

– Ƭᴇcʜιᴇ007 – 2013-12-02T20:18:39.737

While in theory that question is the same as mine, it is still based on Windows 7 which makes it slightly different. But feel free to mark as duplicate if needed. – Rudolph – 2013-12-03T05:34:32.383

Answers

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  • Open up My Computer
  • Right click the drive you want to index
  • Select Properties
  • At the bottom of the General tab (default tab), check the checkbox "Allow files on the drive to have contents indexed in addition to file properties"
  • Repeat for other drives/partitions you wish to index

Keltari

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