Prevent searching files windows 7

Not sure if such a software is available. Why not keep those files in an encrypted folder ?

Basically these are my daily assignments so its a hassle to encrypt them and decrypt them and it has happened twice that someone got an opportunity to copy paste the assignment frm the system .

You can disable search in Windows 7 using method below. But it simply vanishes search box

How To Disable Search In Windows 7 - How-To Geek

NOTE:Make Sure You Have Password Protected The Admin Account Of You System
1. Login into System As Admin.

2. Head To Control Panel and Open Indexing Options.

3. Click on "Advanced Setting " Button.(You have to enter Admin Password To access it-Admin Acces Reqd.)

4. Now In the new window that open up.
Click on "File Type" Tab.It will take some time to load.
Uncheck the file formats you want to exclude from Windows Searches.

5. Now Open Indexing Settings Tab Again Click on Rebuild.
Wait for System to Rebuild the Index for New settings.Click Ok when done.And Close.Restart The PC.

You are good to go.

mohityadavx said:

How can i prevent searching of a particular file in my system.If possible a filetype.

I want that when someone searches "*.docx" in my system search result shows nothing. Is there any way to do so. If not anyway to just prevent file individually from coming in windows search result.

I am using Windows 7 Home Premium.

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Do the following:

Step 1: Goto Start ---> type "index" in the search box.

Step 2: Select Indexing Options

Step 3: Goto Advanced tab {below} in the resulting Window.

Step 4: Select the File Types tab and scroll down to your desired extension and untick it ---> then select OK -- OK. DONE.

PS : works in all versions of windows 7, windows server.

I cant see the File Types tab here's the screenshot

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mohityadavx said:

I cant see the File Types tab here's the screenshot

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oh !

That's easy!

Step 1 : Goto Start --> and type services.msc [ then click on it to open it or press Enter ]

Step 2 : Scroll to Windows Search and start this service [ also set it to manual ]

Step 3 : Now you should get the Files Type Tab.

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Thanks a lot! Just saw your post replied to PM earlier ! Thanks a lot!