Still there is something you don’t seem to take fully into account, and that’s archiving. For example, I have isos split in many rar files, these files zipped in one file. All rar numbered files are ticked in the indexer (rar, rar1, rar2 and so on).

I would like to disable indexing those in a easier way, and leave only the first part of the archive available to the indexer.

Also, when nearly all file types are ticked, I find this view cluttered, as I don’t immediately see if I omitted to tick one particular file type (for example, .mpc, which is “lost” among all mp* file types).

All in one, I think the search indexing features are a strong candidate for a management console add-on, or something similar (the same goes for shadow copy management). That is to tick and untick in one shot, but also as you stress out, to choose the adequate method of indexing.

To answer your question, I would also need to index the content of the readme’s that bear no extension on my hard drive (they were created from a different system, but still, they are plain text files).