Google Desktop Search

Google desktop is great for searching documents on your computer. It uses an index file to store all the information on your computer into that file so that when you perform a search it can quickly return the result of what you are looking for. If you have installed Google desktop for a while and over the years the file will progressively getting larger and larger. In the circumstances where you may run out of hard disk space and you would like to move the index file to a different location then you can do that by tweaking with the registry key. Google store its index file in a folder called "Google Desktop Data" and this folder is by default place in the "My Documents" folder on your computer. I have looked hard from the option menu to see how I can change the default setting for the file, however I only left to realize it is not possible to do so via the option menu.

Fortunately, you can do so by changing the value on one of the key in the system registry. 

1. Make sure that Google Desktop is stop so that the index file is release from locking. (Right click on the tray icon and select Exit)
2. Copy or move the Desktop Data directory to a different desired location.
3. Open the registry editor (click on start menu -> Run... -> regedt32)
4. Look for the key data_dir in the registry (HKEY_CURRENT_USER\Software\Google\Google Desktop\data_dir)
5. Change the value from the old location the new location.
6. Start the Google Desktop and you should be good to go.

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