Everything only searching C drive

[Dummie1138]

Hi. I have installed Everything for a month. Recently my Everything has started to only search for items within my C drive, and is not searching for either externally attached USBs, hard drives, or remote drives.

My settings are all default, except for "run as administrator" which is active. Please let me know if more information is required.

[therube]

run as administrator

Any particular reason you're doing that?
(It is not as "safe", if you're concerned about that.)

Your external drives/devices, are then NTFS or Folder Indexes or?

[void]

Please make sure Everything is installed correctly and running as a standard user:

• In Everything, from the Tools menu, click Options.
• Click the General tab on the left.
• Check Store settings and data in %APPDATA%\Everything.
• Uncheck Run as administrator.
• Check Everything Service. (Please make sure this is tick-checked and not square-checked)
• Click OK.
• Exit Everything (right click the Everything tray icon and click Exit).
• Restart Everything.

Everything will automatically index your fixed NTFS volumes.

To choose which NTFS volumes are indexed:

• In Everything, from the Tools menu, click Options.
• Click the NTFS tab on the left.
• For each NTFS volume:
  • Check or uncheck Include in database.
• Click OK.

To add non-NTFS (external drives are usually formatted with exFAT):

• In Everything, from the Tools menu, click Options.
• Click the Folders tab on the left.
• Click Add....
• Select your external drive and click OK.
• Click OK.

[ednewbold]

Thanks very much. Your three-step solution solved every issue. I appreciate the help.