In Win8 system, we often use the search function, and the index file Windows.edb provides a powerful convenience for search. This file is very useful, but it is very large, stored in the system disk, and it will get bigger and bigger. By moving the index file to a non-system disk, the size of the system disk can be reduced. The path of the Windows.edb file is c: \ programdata \ Microsoft \ search \ data \ applications \ Windows.

This is a screenshot of the properties of Windows.edb file in Win8 computer. You can see that its size is more than 600 MB, and some friends can even reach the size of several GB on their computers. Although we can delete the file, and it will be generated after using the search function again after deletion, so we'd better keep it, but we can move the location of the file.

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1, Win+F shortcut key, open the "search" super button and search for "index options";

2. Open the Index Options window and click the Advanced button at the bottom to open the Advanced Options window;

3. Click the "Select New Location" button in the lower right corner to select the path of the non-system disk for Windows.edb, and finally click "OK" to restart the computer, so that Windows.edb can be moved to the non-system disk, thus achieving the purpose of slimming the Win8 system disk.

Everyone is familiar with the index, which is equivalent to the catalogue of books. An index file consists of data files, which are sequential files with indexes. Indexing technology provides faster convenience for search. If you don't care about the convenience of indexing, you can delete the index file, but it will be automatically generated. After deletion, you can only delete it completely if you stop using "WindowsSerch".