Start menu search won't find certain programs

[IsaacB]

When using the search function from the start menu in Win 7 only apps from my C drive show up. Any programs installed on my other drives I can only find manually. Is there any way to force Windows to search all drives with the built in options? I can not find any solution by googling it which seems unusual to me so any help would be greatly appreciated!

 

[inzone]

Maybe you have to start the search with the drive letter and ;/

 

[nukemaster]

check your indexing settings. The problem is the more you index, the bigger the index file, the slower the search can end up being.

Do these programs have a entry in the start menu to begin with? that in it self should get them indexed. You may need to rebuild the Index from the indexing options->Advanced page(you can start search for index to find it).

 

[inzone]

If you have turned off indexing then that could be a reason for them to not be showing up in your search.