how could i have 4 billion searchable items?

[Guest]

vista seems to have finished indexing my hard drive, and it proudly tells me
i have over 4 billion searchable items. how is this possible? i have about
40,000 files on all drives, and possibly as much as 100,000 emails, but 4
billion is a rather large number. where is it getting that from? it surely
isn't be my contacts list because it ain't that big!

thanks for any tips.
tim

 

[Alan Simpson]

By default the search index includes contents of files along with filenames,
properties, and such. So if they’re mostly text documents like your saved
messages, there may well actually be 4 billion items in the search index.

 

[Guest]

LOL. I had over 4 billion too when indexing was done.
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