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Prevent the display of advanced indexing options for Windows Search in the Control Panel
This policy setting hides or displays the Advanced Options dialog for Search and Indexing Options in the Control Panel. If you enable this policy setting the Advanced Options dialog for Search and Indexing Options in the Control Panel cannot be opened. If you disable or do not configure this policy setting users can acess the Advanced Options dialog for Search and Indexing Options in the Control Panel. This is the default for this policy setting.
Prevent adding user-specified locations to the All Locations menu
This policy setting allows you to enable or disable the Add/Remove location options on the All Locations menu as well as any defined locations that were made by a user. When this policy is not configured the default behavior is to allow users to add and remove new locations to the locations menu. When the policy is enabled the Add and Remove locations options and any previously defined user locations will not be visible. When the policy is disabled both the Add and Remove locations options as well as any previously specified user locations will be visible.
Prevent automatically adding shared folders to the Windows Search index
This policy setting configures how Windows Search adds shared folders to the search index. If you enable this policy setting Windows Search is prevented from automatically adding shared folders to the index. Windows Search does not automatically add shares created on the computer to the scope of the index. If you disable or do not configure this policy setting Windows Search monitors which folders are shared or not shared on this computer and automatically adds them to or removes them from the index.
Set the SafeSearch setting for Search
This policy setting allows you to control the SafeSearch setting used when performing a query in Search. If you enable this policy setting you can specify one of three SafeSearch settings which users won’t be able to change: -Strict: Filter out adult text images and videos from search results; -Moderate: Filter adult images and videos but not text from search results; -Off: Don’t filter adult content from search results. If you disable or don’t configure this policy setting users can specify the SafeSearch setting.
Set what information is shared in Search
This policy setting allows you to control what information is shared with Bing in Search. If you enable this policy setting you can specify one of four settings which users won’t be able to change: -User info and location: Share a user’s search history some Microsoft account info and specific location to personalize their search and other Microsoft experiences. -User info only: Share a user’s search history and some Microsoft account info to personalize their search and other Microsoft experiences. -Anonymous info: Share usage information but don’t share search history Microsoft account info or specific location. If you disable or don’t configure this policy setting users can choose what information is shared in Search.
Don’t search the web or display web results in Search over metered connections
This policy setting allows you to control whether or not Search can perform queries on the web over metered connections and if the web results are displayed in Search. If you enable this policy setting queries won’t be performed on the web over metered connections and web results won’t be displayed when a user performs a query in Search. If you disable this policy setting queries will be performed on the web over metered connections and web results will be displayed when a user performs a query in Search. If you don’t configure this policy setting a user can choose whether or not Search can perform queries on the web over metered connections and if the web results are displayed in Search. Note: If you enable the “Don’t search the web or display web results in Search” policy setting queries won’t be performed on the web over metered connections and web results won’t be displayed when a user performs a query in Search.
Don’t search the web or display web results in Search
This policy setting allows you to control whether or not Search can perform queries on the web and if the web results are displayed in Search. If you enable this policy setting queries won’t be performed on the web and web results won’t be displayed when a user performs a query in Search. If you disable this policy setting queries will be performed on the web and web results will be displayed when a user performs a query in Search. If you don’t configure this policy setting a user can choose whether or not Search can perform queries on the web and if the web results are displayed in Search.
Do not allow locations on removable drives to be added to libraries
This policy setting configures whether or not locations on removable drives can be added to libraries. If you enable this policy setting locations on removable drives cannot be added to libraries. In addition locations on removable drives cannot be indexed. If you disable or do not configure this policy setting locations on removable drives can be added to libraries. In addition locations on removable drives can be indexed.
Always use automatic language detection when indexing content and properties
This policy setting determines when Windows uses automatic language detection results and when it relies on indexing history. If you enable this policy setting Windows will always use automatic language detection to index (as it did in Windows 7). Using automatic language detection can increase memory usage. We recommend enabling this policy setting only on PCs where documents are stored in many languages. If you disable or do not configure this policy setting Windows will use automatic language detection only when it can determine the language of a document with high confidence.
Allow use of diacritics
This policy setting allows words that contain diacritic characters to be treated as separate words. If you enable this policy setting words that only differ in diacritics are treated as different words. If you disable this policy setting words with diacritics and words without diacritics are treated as identical words. This policy setting is not configured by default. If you do not configure this policy setting the local setting configured through Control Panel will be used. Note: By default the Control Panel setting is set to treat words that differ only because of diacritics as the same word.