Google Desktop Search Tool: How to Delete Your Index and History

Tagged: Google

Google desktop search tool is great… sometimes too good! If the tool indexes something you do not want, here’s how to get rid of it.

Now you can use google to search all the files on your computer. Freaking awesome! You can download it here:

http://desktop.google.com/

Suddenly, you can find all files on your computer with a quick search. Oppps! Suddenly, anybody who is using your computer can do a quick search and find a ton of juicy stuff. Scary, huh?

There are ways to hide certain directories from google that are easy enough; however, manually deleting things from a google search is not easy.

Here’s the best way to handle this.

Here’s how to delete the index. Delete all the files in this folder:
C:\Documents and Settings\username\Local Settings\Application Data\Google\Google Desktop Search
(where username is your actual username)

Now this will delete your entire google desktop search index. After you do it, you will find nothing in your google search. Uninstall and reinstall the desktop tool.

Next, set your directories that you don’t want google to search…

That way, you can set your “pron” directory to “do not search” and all your pron or whatever will not be indexed.