Prevent indexing certain paths
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Key metadata and intent for this policy.

Computer
Category
Windows Components > Search
Supported on
Microsoft Windows XP, Windows Server 2003 with Windows Search version 3.01, or any version of Microsoft Windows with Windows Search 4.0 or later

Supported OS tags: WindowsServer2003, WindowsXP

If you enable this policy setting, you specify a list of paths to exclude from indexing. The user cannot enter any path that starts with one of the paths you specified. If you enable and then disable this policy setting, users can index any path not restricted by other policies, but their original list of paths to index is not restored.

Internal name
PreventIndexingCertainPaths_1
Policy ID
ba39d4a0171b
Elements
1

Registry values

How enabled and disabled states update the registry.

No explicit registry values are set for enabled or disabled states.

Policy elements

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ScopeElementTypeRegistry mappingConstraints & behaviorCopy
Computer
Prevent Indexing Certain Paths
ID PreventIndexingCertainPaths
listNone
List: standard
Prevent Indexing Certain Paths
Computer · Type list
Registry mappingNone
Details
List: standard