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The third location of search settings is shown in Figure 3-5. This is Index

Settings, the master control over the search index, the massive, invisible,
constantly updated database file that tracks your PC’s files and what’s in
them. To open this box, open the Search panel (click or tap in the search
box) and then hit the at the top right corner. From the menu, choose

“Indexing options.” You arrive at the Indexing Options dialog box shown in
Figure 3-3; click Advanced, and authenticate if necessary.

Index Settings tab

On the first tab (Figure 3-5), here’s the kind of fun you can have:

Index encrypted files. Windows can encrypt files and folders with

a quick click, making them unreadable to anyone who receives one
by email, say, and doesn’t have the password. This checkbox lets
Windows index these files (the ones you’ve encrypted, of course;

this isn’t a back door to files you can’t otherwise access).