.exe files not indexed with Windows Search

"It should do and whilst I have other problems with indexing on my machine, it does return .exe results.

Try going in to options and rebuilding your database."

"Perhaps what you really want is to add My Documents to PATH in your system environmental variable. This allows you to just do a Windows+R and type in procexp or putty to run those programs.

I like that you can find programs using Windows Search, but if you already know the name of the program, it is faster to just run it from the Run prompt.

This is for Windows 7:

Control Panel > System
Advanced system settings
Go to Advanced tab and select Environment Variables
In System variables, scroll down to path
Click Edit
Add your My Documents path, such as c:\users\me\documents
Make sure to use a semicolon separator
Click OK"