If you want to enable indexing on a Windows file server, you will need to start by installing the Windows Search Service. To do so, open Server Manager and then choose the Add Roles and Features ...

In Part 40, we will cover Windows Search "indexing." Sometimes you can find a file by its name, but searching for words that ...

If Search Indexing is not running on your Windows 11/10 PC, read this post to learn how to fix the issue. Indexing is a process that maintains an index of file properties and metadata to speed up ...

An investigation that CSO Online conducted has found that if you do not have your network-connected HDDs configured correctly, your files could be ending up in the wrong hands. Their report stated ...

It has been a very long time since the average computer user thought about .cue files, or cue sheets, the metadata bits that describe the tracks of an optical disc, like a CD or DVD. But cue sheets ...

Following on from my previous thread which sank without trace, I thought I'd ask a more open ended question . . . We have file shares via DFS for user data (home drives and shared data) which sit on a ...

It's no secret that Google wants to index everything that is attached to the internet. The search giant spends huge sums of money in an effort to optimize its indexing capabilities. It appears that ...

Index Files Search Words Lite (free) is a program which does the job it's supposed to do--indexing files and letting you search for them--but really seems to be more a "demo" than a "lite". What it ...

Let’s face it: Searching your PC for files within Windows has always been mildly confusing, especially with several options for searching right within Windows 10 and 11. But if you’re convinced that a ...

Google's John Mueller said this morning on a Google hangout at the 3:40 mark into the video that you can pretty clearly see if your site has been moved over to the mobile first index by looking at ...