{"id":1229,"date":"2018-04-15T11:03:13","date_gmt":"2018-04-15T11:03:13","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/info.greatis.com\/guide\/?p=1229"},"modified":"2018-04-15T11:03:13","modified_gmt":"2018-04-15T11:03:13","slug":"add-remove-file-types-search","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/info.greatis.com\/guide\/tweaks\/add-remove-file-types-search\/","title":{"rendered":"How to Add or Remove File Types from Search in Windows 10?"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>In Windows 10, you can make the operating system to search for certain file types or prevent the search feature from accessing them. This can be done by changing the Search index options. Here is how.<\/p>\n<h3>Here is How to Add or Remove File Types from Search in Windows 10:<\/h3>\n<div class=\"w10steps\">\n<ul>\n<li>STEP 1: At first, open the <b>Control Panel<\/b>.<br \/>\n<img src=\"https:\/\/info.greatis.com\/guide\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/4\/2017\/11\/windows-10-control-panel.png\" alt=\"windows-10-control-panel\" class=\"responsive-img\" \/><\/li>\n<li>STEP 2: Then open Indexing Options by typing <b><i>indexing options<\/i><\/b> in the search box of the Control Panel, and then click the settings item <b>Indexing Options<\/b>.<br \/>\n<img src=\"https:\/\/info.greatis.com\/guide\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/4\/2018\/04\/windows-10-indexing-options.png\" alt=\"windows-10-indexing-options\"  class=\"responsive-img\" \/><\/li>\n<li>STEP 3: After that, click the <b>Advanced<\/b> button in the Indexing Options applet.<br \/>\n<img src=\"http:\/\/info.greatis.com\/guide\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/4\/2018\/04\/windows-10-advanced-indexing-options.png\" alt=\"windows-10-advanced-indexing-options\" class=\"responsive-img\" \/><\/li>\n<li>STEP 4: Finally, go to the <b>File Types<\/b> tab in the new appeared window. There you may type a new extension in the text box under <b>Add new extension to list<\/b> to add it to the list of indexed file types.<br \/>\n<img src=\"http:\/\/info.greatis.com\/guide\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/4\/2018\/04\/windows-10-search-index-add-new-extension.png\" alt=\"windows 10 search index add new file types\" class=\"responsive-img\" \/><\/li>\n<p>Here, for every listed extension, you may set one of the following options:<br \/>\n1) <b>Index Properties Only<\/b>. Windows will include only file system meta data like file name, date, author, etc in the index.<br \/>\n2) <b>Index Properties and File Contents<\/b>. Along with file system meta data, the file contents and extra file properties will be included in the index. This makes the search index large and slower, but more efficient if you often search for file contents.\n<\/ul>\n<\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Here is How to Add or Remove File Types from Search in Windows 10<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":1234,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[5],"tags":[],"yoast_head":"<!-- This site is optimized with the Yoast SEO plugin v20.0 - https:\/\/yoast.com\/wordpress\/plugins\/seo\/ -->\n<title>How to Add or Remove File Types from Search in Windows 10? - Windows Tips, tricks, Hacks and Tweaks<\/title>\n<meta name=\"robots\" content=\"index, follow, max-snippet:-1, max-image-preview:large, max-video-preview:-1\" \/>\n<link rel=\"canonical\" href=\"https:\/\/info.greatis.com\/guide\/tweaks\/add-remove-file-types-search\/\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:locale\" content=\"en_US\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:type\" content=\"article\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:title\" content=\"How to Add or Remove File Types from Search in Windows 10? - Windows Tips, tricks, Hacks and Tweaks\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:description\" content=\"Here is How to Add or Remove File Types from Search in Windows 10\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:url\" content=\"https:\/\/info.greatis.com\/guide\/tweaks\/add-remove-file-types-search\/\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:site_name\" content=\"Windows Tips, tricks, Hacks and Tweaks\" \/>\n<meta property=\"article:published_time\" content=\"2018-04-15T11:03:13+00:00\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:image\" content=\"https:\/\/info.greatis.com\/guide\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/4\/2018\/04\/windows-10-search-index-add-new-extension.png\" \/>\n\t<meta property=\"og:image:width\" content=\"338\" \/>\n\t<meta property=\"og:image:height\" content=\"427\" \/>\n\t<meta property=\"og:image:type\" content=\"image\/png\" \/>\n<meta name=\"author\" content=\"Andrew Wise\" \/>\n<meta name=\"twitter:card\" content=\"summary_large_image\" \/>\n<meta name=\"twitter:creator\" content=\"@AndrewWise911\" \/>\n<meta name=\"twitter:label1\" content=\"Written by\" \/>\n\t<meta name=\"twitter:data1\" content=\"Andrew Wise\" \/>\n\t<meta name=\"twitter:label2\" content=\"Est. reading time\" \/>\n\t<meta name=\"twitter:data2\" content=\"1 minute\" \/>\n<script type=\"application\/ld+json\" class=\"yoast-schema-graph\">{\"@context\":\"https:\/\/schema.org\",\"@graph\":[{\"@type\":\"WebPage\",\"@id\":\"https:\/\/info.greatis.com\/guide\/tweaks\/add-remove-file-types-search\/\",\"url\":\"https:\/\/info.greatis.com\/guide\/tweaks\/add-remove-file-types-search\/\",\"name\":\"How to Add or Remove File Types from Search in Windows 10? - Windows Tips, tricks, Hacks and Tweaks\",\"isPartOf\":{\"@id\":\"https:\/\/info.greatis.com\/guide\/#website\"},\"datePublished\":\"2018-04-15T11:03:13+00:00\",\"dateModified\":\"2018-04-15T11:03:13+00:00\",\"author\":{\"@id\":\"https:\/\/info.greatis.com\/guide\/#\/schema\/person\/4494705d8033ced33d2cfbc9c4c4a9f6\"},\"breadcrumb\":{\"@id\":\"https:\/\/info.greatis.com\/guide\/tweaks\/add-remove-file-types-search\/#breadcrumb\"},\"inLanguage\":\"en-US\",\"potentialAction\":[{\"@type\":\"ReadAction\",\"target\":[\"https:\/\/info.greatis.com\/guide\/tweaks\/add-remove-file-types-search\/\"]}]},{\"@type\":\"BreadcrumbList\",\"@id\":\"https:\/\/info.greatis.com\/guide\/tweaks\/add-remove-file-types-search\/#breadcrumb\",\"itemListElement\":[{\"@type\":\"ListItem\",\"position\":1,\"name\":\"Home\",\"item\":\"https:\/\/info.greatis.com\/guide\/\"},{\"@type\":\"ListItem\",\"position\":2,\"name\":\"How to Add or Remove File Types from Search in Windows 10?\"}]},{\"@type\":\"WebSite\",\"@id\":\"https:\/\/info.greatis.com\/guide\/#website\",\"url\":\"https:\/\/info.greatis.com\/guide\/\",\"name\":\"Windows Tips, tricks, Hacks and Tweaks\",\"description\":\"Just another Security News site\",\"potentialAction\":[{\"@type\":\"SearchAction\",\"target\":{\"@type\":\"EntryPoint\",\"urlTemplate\":\"https:\/\/info.greatis.com\/guide\/?s={search_term_string}\"},\"query-input\":\"required name=search_term_string\"}],\"inLanguage\":\"en-US\"},{\"@type\":\"Person\",\"@id\":\"https:\/\/info.greatis.com\/guide\/#\/schema\/person\/4494705d8033ced33d2cfbc9c4c4a9f6\",\"name\":\"Andrew Wise\",\"image\":{\"@type\":\"ImageObject\",\"inLanguage\":\"en-US\",\"@id\":\"https:\/\/info.greatis.com\/guide\/#\/schema\/person\/image\/\",\"url\":\"https:\/\/secure.gravatar.com\/avatar\/cdaec00c9b2be4cafb2b31b08041a779?s=96&d=mm&r=g\",\"contentUrl\":\"https:\/\/secure.gravatar.com\/avatar\/cdaec00c9b2be4cafb2b31b08041a779?s=96&d=mm&r=g\",\"caption\":\"Andrew Wise\"},\"description\":\"Andrew is just a guy who uses computers every day, and hates if troubles come into his life. 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