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When I use the search from the Start Menu in Windows 7, results/mail from Outlook shows up.
How can I disable this? I only want to disable showing the mails when I search from the Start Menu – I don't want to do anything that affects indexing/searching mails from within Outlook itself.
It's a custom sort being done by Windows itself. I've never seen any options to adjust it outside of marking which files you want indexed and which one you don't.
By default Outlook searches all items in the folder. You can refine your search by using advanced options on the Search tab (appears when you click in the search box).
Clicking the More button gives you specific fields to search in.
Even faster, if you know the name of the field you can type it directly into the search box; i.e. subject:foo content:foo. This will only search the fields you specify. FYI, content is the body of the message. There are no spaces between the field, the : and the search term. Place a single space between multiple fields to be searched (like the image below).
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I think removing outlook from Windows' search index does affect searching in Outlook.
But there's a way to remove this via policies. Just write this into a .reg file and "run" it: