Not indexing all of \Windows contents?

[Dave77]

Hi there,

I have new installation of Win 8.1 x64 running Everything 1.3.3.658 x64 and it's indexing some but not all of the files in C:\Windows and C:\Windows\System32. I used to run Everything on my Win 7 setup and I don't recall this limitation but I can't be sure my recollection is accurate in this regard. Is this expected behaviour?

By way of example, Everything will find 'notepad.exe' in the ..\WinSxS\ directories but not in C:\Windows or C:\Windows\System32 where the file physically resides. In fact it returns no executables in C:\Windows at all and only a handful from C:\Windows\System32. There's no immediately discernible difference between the executables it does index in ..\System32 and those it does not.

User Account Control is turned down (Control Panel) and disabled (Policy Editor) and I can see, copy, delete, move etc the files in an Explorer windows or console (cmd or powershell). I've deleted and refreshed the Everything database and confirmed I have no exclusions.

I'd prefer an absolute file list from Everything if at all possible, is this achievable?

[therube]

Likely hard link related.
A search here for "hard link" should turn up some related posts.

[Dave77]

^ thank you. That was the search term that eluded me and I believe you're correct.

So it's been covered before and a partial solution is simple... add a folder index for C:\Windows. Although this of course throws up duplicates from the NTFS index but I see this is being considered by void - http://forum.voidtools.com/viewtopic.ph ... 769&p=6626

Again, thanks for the appropriate search term - I did look around but missed the key threads.