Windows Search

Thanks for the effort, but I wasn't able to find anything useful there.

Again, thanks for your interest.

If you have XP and Search on your machine, click on the magnifying glass to the right of the Search entry on the status bar, then click on the rectangular icon with the six dots between "Results" and "?". Then click on Search Options. This will show you what is selected. Unless you have made additional choices, this will be basically My Documents and Outlook Express, neither of which I use.

I followed the instructions in the URL you gave me, and they told me that everything is OK, which is reasonable right now. as I just had to re-index again. However, the method that site gave for selecting drives to be indexed by going through the drive's Properties function was new to me. I have always used the Search Option feature. The difference is that Properties does not allow indexing my two FAT32 drives, whereas Search Option does. Since this may be a confusion factor to the software (the right hand doesn't know what the left is doing), I will remove these drives and see what happens.