Changing the Default Windows Search Settings

We usually never give a thought of changing the settings for the Windows Search. Changing the settings is easy, to do this just click Change Preferences. From here you can change the Animated character, you can remove it, change the file, folder search behavior and much more. I am using Windows Xp SP2 and options might differ from version to version. Lets see them.

• Without An Animated Character : You can actually search without that animated character as well, you can remove him if it irritates you.
• With A Different Character : You can even change the character if you want. Options available are Rover - the Dog, The Dot, F1, Office Logo, Mother Nature, Links - the Cat, Rocky - the Dog, Merlin - The Magician, Courtney and Earl. Choose from these.
• Indexing Services : This should be enabled, it makes faster for your computer to make searches, and not only that, it will also speed up the process of data fetching. In some cases, when your system is idle, it may become slow to react as when your system is idle, then system starts indexing your files.
• Change File and Folder Search Behavior : This is a good option which should be set to as Advanced level. By this it would be easy for you to make searches within your computer. If you are comfortable with the technical stuff, then you must select the Advanced level.
• Internet Search Behavior : Here you can choose any of them, we don’t use it much, and I suppose some of us don’t use it at all.
• Balloon Tips : These tips are given during the search results to make things better and simpler for you. You can opt for it, as you might get any new stuff to learn.
• Auto Complete : You can turf On/Off the auto complete feature.

These were the preferences you can change. People today are so organized that they don’t feel the need for searching their files and folders. But yet it’s a very important tool.