Does Password Protect shield folders and their contents from being searched by Windows, Google Desktop Search and other programs?
When the folder is protected, no program including Google Desktop Search or Windows Search can access the contents of the folder. Let me try to explain how Google Desktop Search works so that you do not have problems with it in future: 1. When you create a document, Google Desktop Search indexes the document and creates a cache copy of it. 2. You protect the document. After that no program or user can access the document without entering the password. 3. When you search for the document, Google Desktop Search finds the document in its index and shows a snippet of the document from the Google Desktop cache. If you click the link in the Google Desktop search results, Google Desktop Search won’t be able to open the original document as it is password-protected. So Google Desktop Search may display a cached copy of the protected document. If you do not want Google Desktop Search to index and cache some documents, run Google Desktop Search, click the Desktop Preferences link and then enter
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