💻 Software

Exclude directories from Windows Search by wildcard

Fresh5 days ago

Mar 15, 202613705 views

Confidence Score0%

Problem

Search Indexing is interfering with our build process, and I would like to exclude all instances of our dev directories from the indexer (we have a trunk and branches setup). I could exclude the whole parent directory, but that would exclude too many files. I can do it manually by deselecting each …

Error Output

HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE\SOFTWARE\Microsoft\Windows Search\CrawlScopeManager\Windows\SystemIndex\WorkingSetRules

Unverified for your environment

Select your OS to check compatibility.

Your OS

OS version

Product version

1 Fix

Canonical Fix

Unverified Fix

New Fix – Awaiting Verification

Fix for: Exclude directories from Windows Search by wildcard

Low Risk

I looked in the key and found something interesting. contains: Look at that key - two wildcards! So since Windows Search natively supports wildcards, all we have to do is tweak an existing exception. Adding wildcard exceptions to Windows Search Add …

Awaiting Verification

Be the first to verify this fix

Exclude directories from Windows Search by wildcard

Problem

Error Output

1 Fix

Fix for: Exclude directories from Windows Search by wildcard

Environment