If you tell Windows to exclude a certain folder from indexing, then all files in that folder will be excluded. Opening the Advanced Search Indexer SettingsĪnother thing to understand about Windows search index that you cannot exclude individual files from it, you can only exclude folders. Regardless, you should be able to open the Advanced Search Indexer Settings:
The amount of control that you have depends on the type of your user account: some features are only available to the administrators, and not to the standard users. You should get to the screen that lets you control the folders that Windows search includes or excludes in its index. Windows 10 offers just a tool for that: from the Start menu, open Settings, and there select Searching Windows. So in order to prevent an image from appearing in the Photos app, we need to find a way to remove information about that image file from the search index.
Instead, it uses information from the Windows search index: if it finds information about an image file in the search index, it uses it to display the image. The most important thing to understand about how the Photos app finds the pictures to display is that it does NOT look for the image files stored on the hard drive directly. What if you don't want some of the pictures to be visible in the Photos app? This article will explain how to do that.
If you use the Photos app to view pictures stored on your Windows 10 computer, you probably have noticed that normally it displays all pictures it can find on the PC.
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