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Asked by ahammar in Windows Vista, Microsoft Operating Systems

This is probably very simple, but I'm confused.  I've been trying to learn how to use Vista for awhile now (which I think was a mistake now)and have run into an issue (one of many I might add)
When in Windows Explorer there is a search box in the upper right corner of my screen.  As I type in it, it filters and shows the results in the Explorer window.  Thats fine and dandy.  As I was doing that on an external hard drive (my K drive), it popped up a message saying something like "Click here to index this drive and make searches faster".  So I did that.
Now the search for that drive does not work at all unless I go to "Advanced search" and select "Show non indexed and hidden files".  I have to do that everytime for the search to work.  It was working fine before I chose to index the drive.  What's up with that?
Maybe I just need to un-index it, but I don't know how to do that either.  I've spent so much time trying to get around all the bugs in Vista, I can't get anything done....but that's another story.
Please note, I am not very familiar with indexing.  I have never chosen to index drives or directories before in all the years I've been using Windows Explorer (and that is a lot of years).  I figured I have a very powerful computer now and should go ahead and index...but so far that was a bad idea.
How do I get my search to work now.  I"m sure it's something I just am not understanding, so can someone please explain what that is, or what is going on and how to fix it.

Thanks!
:-)
Albert

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