Windows – How to remove certain search results Windows 7

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Essentially, I want to exclude certain programs from showing in the search results. I still want to use the search feature for everything else.

For example. don't show solitare, when I type in sol…… etc

This should do it

Search for Indexing Options and run it
When the window opens Click the Modify button
on the Indexed Locations window, click "Show all Locations"
When the window reopens, Click the start menu in the bottom frame, then in the top frame, find the programs or folders not to index and clear the check boxes.
Click Ok & Close to get back out

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:

Windows Registry Editor Version 5.00

[HKEY_CURRENT_USER\Software\Microsoft\Windows\CurrentVersion\Policies]
"NoSearchCommInStartMenu"=dword:00000001