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because what’s inside them is programming code with little relevance to

most people’s work. Omitting these files from the index keeps the index
smaller and the searches fast.

But what if you routinely traffic in very rare Venezuelan Beekeeping
Interchange Format (VBIF) documents—a file type your copy of Windows

has never met before? You won’t be able to search their contents unless you
specifically teach Windows about them.

In the Advanced Options dialog box, click the File Types tab. Type the

filename extension (like VBIF) into the text box at the lower left. Click Add
and then OK. From now on, Windows will index this new file type.

On the other hand, if you find that Windows uses up valuable search-results

menu space listing, say, web bookmarks—stuff you don’t need to find very
often—you can tell it not to bother. Now the results list won’t fill up with
files you don’t care about.

Turn the checkboxes on or off to make Windows start or stop indexing
them.

Using the “How should this file be indexed” options at the bottom of the

box, you can also make Windows stop searching these files’ contents—the
text within them—for better speed and a smaller index.

The Folders of Windows 10

The top-level, all-encompassing, mother-ship window of your PC is the
This PC window (formerly called Computer, formerly formerly called My

Computer). From within this window, you have access to every disk, folder,
and file on your computer. Its slogan might well be “If it’s not in here, it’s

not on your PC.”

To see it, open an Explorer window and click This PC in the navigation
pane.

You wind up face to face with the icons of every storage gizmo connected

to your PC: hard drives, CD and DVD drives, USB flash drives, digital