Friday, October 29, 2004

Hacking Google Desktop Search to Index Drives Besides C:

My initial enthusiasm for the recently released Google Desktop Search product was somewhat dampened when I realized that the product would only index files on the C: drive. That restriction limits the value of GDS on my home system (on which virtually all user files are stored on the E: drive) and on my work PC (where I store all my user files on a network share mapped as G:).

It turns out that there's a workaround. Scott Kingery's excellent GDS TIPS page has all sorts of useful information about GDS, including how to hack the registry to tell GDS to index additional drives besides C:.

(Thanks to Chris Sherman from Search Engine Watch for pointing out the Kingery site.)

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