Category: Microsoft Windows XP, Windows Server 2003 with Windows Search version 3.01 or any version of Microsoft Windows with Windows Search 4.0 or later

Enabling this policy allows you to edit the list of file types to exclude from indexing. The end user cannot modify this list. You should separate each extension type with a semicolon. Note that limitations of Group Policy Object Editor require this list to be split across multiple values. Desktop Search combines all these into a single exclusion list. When this policy is disabled or not configured the user can edit the default list of excluded file types. If you enable and then disable this policy the user’s original list is restored. If you want to specify an initial default list of excluded file types that users can change later see the administration guide for information about how to set up the initial machine preference.

Enabling this policy prevents indexing from continuing after less than the specified amount of hard drive space is left on the same drive as the index location. Select between 0 and 2147483647 MB. Enable this policy if computers in your environment have extremely limited hard drive space. When this policy is disabled or not configured Windows Desktop Search automatically manages your index size.

If you enable this policy setting you specify a list of paths to exclude from indexing. The user cannot enter any path that starts with one of the paths you specified. If you enable and then disable this policy setting users can index any path not restricted by other policies but their original list of paths to index is not restored.

Enabling this policy allows you to specify a list of paths to index by default. The user may override these paths and exclude them from indexing.

Enabling this policy allows you to specify a list of paths to exclude from indexing by default. The user may override these paths and include them in indexing.

If enabled Search and Indexing Options in Control Panel does not allow opening the Modify Locations dialog. Otherwise it can be opened. Disabled by default.

If enabled the indexer pauses whenever the computer is running on battery. If disabled the indexing follows the default behavior. Default is disabled.