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and efectiveness of the indexing by choosing Tools > Options from the
main menu and then choosing Indexing Priority from the Options screen.
While you're here, you can also choose some other options for indexing and
searching with Yahoo Desktop.
Yahoo supports several diferent kinds of iles, including Outlook, Outlook
Express, hunderbird, Microsot Oice, PDF, and, of course, plain text and
HTML iles.
Yahoo also has a free downloadable expansion pack that allows indexing of
an additional 300 ile types. You can download the pack and get a full list of
the additional ile types at desktop.yahoo.com/iletypes.
You'll want to spend some time in the preferences menu that I mentioned
above. It was here that I had to do a little additional tweaking. For exam-
ple, I had to set as a preference that media iles (such as music iles) would
play automatically in the preview pane. Without doing this, I would have
to launch them manually every time I found a music ile. Yahoo Desktop
Search also has a More Indexing option that shows you exactly how much is
going to be indexed on each folder of your hard drive (
Figure 13.7
).
Figure 13.7
be sure to check the
indexing options to see
what Yahoo desktop
is actually getting in
its index.
Yahoo Desktop seems to not index the contents of your Program Files
directory by default. If you've installed programs in that folder, and the
information generated by the programs is also kept in that directory, you
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