Windows 8 or 8.1’s new search scours the web as well as your computer. But it won’t search your entire computer, because windows searches to index your system’s resources may cause to slow down your computer. So it will only search the most common areas like start menu of your hard drive. If you want the windows search index your desired part of your computer then follow these steps.
Simple Steps to Add Extra Drives and Folders in search:
1- These simple steps give you more comprehensive results when you want to looking data on your computer.
2- First open your control panel and select large icons from ‘View by’ option.
3- open ‘Indexing Option’ and click modify and add any additional location you want to add to your search index, such an external hard drive.[adsense]
4- Check the boxes for everything you want indexed and then click OK button.
Hope it will be helpful for using your computer more comfortable. If you have any question or suggestion feel free write us in the comments, I will give you reply as soon as possible.