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This article explains how to turn off the index(Link). I'm not interested in turning off the index, but I'm curious about 2 different options.

In "Turn Off Indexing Selectively" section from the article, they turn it off by modifying Indexing Options. In "Turn Off Indexing for a Drive" section, they turn off Allow files on this drive to have contents indexed in addition to file properties. I wonder if those settings behave differently.

For example, If I added a path "C:\Foo" from Indexing Options but turned off Allow files on this drive to have contents indexed in addition to file properties from the folder properties, is the folder indexed? If so, what is Allow files on this drive to have contents indexed in addition to file properties for?

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What is "Allow files on this drive to have contents indexed in addition to file properties for"?

Note that Contents is not the same as Properties.

This tells the system that when it indexes the file, it should also index the contents of the file.

Indexing the contents of a file allows you to use the Search feature of Windows Explorer to find files that contain the specified text. If the contents are not indexed, the Search feature will only find files by their name.

Source Understanding and Using File Attributes (Tips.Net)

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