Indexing locations is a great way to keep track of where you have placed files and folders. Indexing locations can also help you find files and folders when you need them. Indexing locations is a great way to keep track of where you have placed files and folders. Indexing locations can also help you find files and folders when you need them. To add indexing locations to your Windows Vista system, follow these steps:

  1. Open the Control Panel and click on the System tab.
  2. On the System tab, click on the Add or Remove Programs button.
  3. In the Add Programs dialog box, type indexing into the Program Name field and click on the Add button.
  4. The Add Indexing Locations dialog box will appear.
  5. In the File Types field, select either .txt or .xml for your indexing location file type. Click on OK to add your indexing location to your system.

To get to the indexing service panel, just type index into the start menu search box, and hit enter.

In the Indexing Options window, click the Modify button

On the next screen, click Show all Locations

Now we can actually figure out which folders we want to index. Just put a checkbox next to the locations you want to index.

Note that you should NOT index your entire computer, because it will make indexing slow. Only index locations where you actually store data files. An example of a location you shouldn’t index… program files. There’s just no need to index that.