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On Mon, 6/30/2025 6:50 PM, J. P. Gilliver wrote:

Anyone know how to make the "everything" search utility _ex_clude something (and remember that)?

I would prefer to exclude .lnk files. When I "run" a file (e. g. am mp3) from everything's search results (or almost anywhere else, such as File Manager), a .lnk appears in my Recent - fair enough, but of course it also matches the search criteria that

found it, so the everything window shows it too.

I've looked through its menus, but the most hopeful looking one - Tools | Options | Indexes | Exclude - didn't work.

Contains "excluded folders and file types" in the PDF. (311 Pages)
Unzip and use your PDF Reader.

https://www.voidtools.com/Everything-1.4.User.Guide.en-US.pdf.zip

Paul

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In alt.comp.os.windows-11, on Mon, 30 Jun 2025 23:50:55 +0100, "J. P.
Gilliver" <G6JPG@255soft.uk> wrote:

Anyone know how to make the "everything" search utility _ex_clude
something (and remember that)?

I would prefer to exclude .lnk files. When I "run" a file (e. g. am mp3)
from everything's search results (or almost anywhere else, such as File >Manager), a .lnk appears in my Recent - fair enough, but of course it
also matches the search criteria that found it, so the everything window >shows it too.

Yes, I get those a lot too.

If you get impatient, see the end.

I've never seen a program with more options. Hard to believe he didn't
include that, but I can't find it either.

I'm sure you know, but just in case and for others, you can search for
any combinations of parts of the file name. Even if you can't remember
the whole name.
So instead of fxsound that includes fxsound.lnk, how about
fx exe
It wouldn't remember that, of course.

Maybe if you sort by path, all the lnk's will be grouped together.

I've looked through its menus, but the most hopeful looking one - Tools
| Options | Indexes | Exclude - didn't work.

Are you sure? I put in the exclude box *.lnk and I think it worked.

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On 2025/6/30 23:56:54, Paul wrote:

On Mon, 6/30/2025 6:50 PM, J. P. Gilliver wrote:

Anyone know how to make the "everything" search utility _ex_clude something (and remember that)?

I would prefer to exclude .lnk files. When I "run" a file (e. g. am mp3) from everything's search results (or almost anywhere else, such as File Manager), a .lnk appears in my Recent - fair enough, but of course it also matches the search criteria

that found it, so the everything window shows it too.

I've looked through its menus, but the most hopeful looking one - Tools | Options | Indexes | Exclude - didn't work.

Contains "excluded folders and file types" in the PDF. (311 Pages)
Unzip and use your PDF Reader.

https://www.voidtools.com/Everything-1.4.User.Guide.en-US.pdf.zip

Paul

Thanks for that link.

I was _nearly_ there: I had put

.lnk

in the exlcude box. Turns out that putting

*.lnk

worked!
--
J. P. Gilliver. UMRA: 1960/<1985 MB++G()AL-IS-Ch++(p)Ar@T+H+Sh0!:`)DNAf

WANTED, Dead AND Alive: Schrodinger's Cat

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On 6/30/2025 3:56 PM, Paul wrote:

On Mon, 6/30/2025 6:50 PM, J. P. Gilliver wrote:

Anyone know how to make the "everything" search utility _ex_clude something (and remember that)?

I would prefer to exclude .lnk files. When I "run" a file (e. g. am mp3) from everything's search results (or almost anywhere else, such as File Manager), a .lnk appears in my Recent - fair enough, but of course it also matches the search criteria

that found it, so the everything window shows it too.

I've looked through its menus, but the most hopeful looking one - Tools | Options | Indexes | Exclude - didn't work.

Contains "excluded folders and file types" in the PDF. (311 Pages)
Unzip and use your PDF Reader.

https://www.voidtools.com/Everything-1.4.User.Guide.en-US.pdf.zip

Paul

Thank you. I have downloaded and unzipped the file. I then added a
shortcut to it in my Start folder.

Today, too many applications only have Web-based documentation. This is especially bad with anti-virus applications. If I suspect I have a
virus, this first thing I do is disable my Internet connection so that I
do not spread it. With only Web-based documentation, I am then cut off
from vital information on dealing with the virus.

Followup-To set to alt.windows7.general.

--
David E. Ross
<http://www.rossde.com/

The stranger that sojourneth with you shall be
unto you as the home-born among you, and thou shalt
love him as thyself; for ye were strangers in the
land of Egypt: I am the LORD your God.
Leviticus 19:34

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On 2025/7/1 0:58:23, micky wrote:

In alt.comp.os.windows-11, on Mon, 30 Jun 2025 23:50:55 +0100, "J. P. Gilliver" <G6JPG@255soft.uk> wrote:

[]

I would prefer to exclude .lnk files. When I "run" a file (e. g. am mp3)

[]

Yes, I get those a lot too.

[]

Are you sure? I put in the exclude box *.lnk and I think it worked.

It does. I'd left out the * (since the search function works without
them, I assumed - wrongly - that the exclude function would too).
--
J. P. Gilliver. UMRA: 1960/<1985 MB++G()AL-IS-Ch++(p)Ar@T+H+Sh0!:`)DNAf

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"J. P. Gilliver" <G6JPG@255soft.uk> wrote in news:103v6u3$27r2q$5@dont-email.me:

On 2025/6/30 23:56:54, Paul wrote:

On Mon, 6/30/2025 6:50 PM, J. P. Gilliver wrote:

Anyone know how to make the "everything" search utility _ex_clude
something (and remember that)?

I would prefer to exclude .lnk files. When I "run" a file (e. g. am
mp3) from everything's search results (or almost anywhere else, such
as File Manager), a .lnk appears in my Recent - fair enough, but of
course it also matches the search criteria that found it, so the
everything window shows it too.

I've looked through its menus, but the most hopeful looking one -
Tools | Options | Indexes | Exclude - didn't work.

Contains "excluded folders and file types" in the PDF. (311 Pages)
Unzip and use your PDF Reader.

https://www.voidtools.com/Everything-1.4.User.Guide.en-US.pdf.zip

Paul

Thanks for that link.

I was _nearly_ there: I had put

.lnk

in the exlcude box. Turns out that putting

*.lnk

worked!

I can't find the exclude box. Where is it?

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Paul wrote:

On Mon, 6/30/2025 6:50 PM, J. P. Gilliver wrote:

Anyone know how to make the "everything" search utility _ex_clude something (and remember that)?

I would prefer to exclude .lnk files. When I "run" a file (e. g. am mp3) from everything's search results (or almost anywhere else, such as File Manager), a .lnk appears in my Recent - fair enough, but of course it also matches the search criteria

that found it, so the everything window shows it too.

Paul's answer will work _every_ time.
If you want a less drastic, one-time exclusion, just add to your query "!.lnk"

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"J. P. Gilliver" <G6JPG@255soft.uk> wrote in news:10404dm$27r2q$8@dont-email.me:

On 2025/7/1 4:22:48, Boris wrote:

"J. P. Gilliver" <G6JPG@255soft.uk> wrote in
news:103v6u3$27r2q$5@dont-email.me:

On 2025/6/30 23:56:54, Paul wrote:

On Mon, 6/30/2025 6:50 PM, J. P. Gilliver wrote:

Anyone know how to make the "everything" search utility _ex_clude
something (and remember that)?

I would prefer to exclude .lnk files. When I "run" a file (e. g.
am mp3) from everything's search results (or almost anywhere else,
such as File Manager), a .lnk appears in my Recent - fair enough,
but of course it also matches the search criteria that found it,
so the everything window shows it too.

I've looked through its menus, but the most hopeful looking one -
Tools | Options | Indexes | Exclude - didn't work.

Contains "excluded folders and file types" in the PDF. (311 Pages)
Unzip and use your PDF Reader.

https://www.voidtools.com/Everything-1.4.User.Guide.en-US.pdf.zip

Paul

Thanks for that link.

I was _nearly_ there: I had put

.lnk

in the exlcude box. Turns out that putting

*.lnk

worked!

I can't find the exclude box. Where is it?

Tools | Options | "Exclude" is third from bottom on left | "Exclude
files" is then bottom on right.

On second look, there it is. Thanks.

(That's in "Version 1.4.1.1026 (x86)", but probably the same in most.
[I just tried "check for updates" and it said it was the latest.])

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