How to Stop Windows 7 Thunderbird Search
Mozilla Thunderbird is a free application that can gather emails from all of your Web-based email accounts and present them to you on your local computer. Starting at Version 3.0, Thunderbird can also allow Windows 7 to index your emails to allow you to search through them with the operating system's search utility. This feature is useful, but it can add a lot of potentially useless hits to your Windows searches. If you wish to disable this feature so Windows 7 won't search Thunderbird emails, you'll need to change the configuration settings.
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Instructions
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Launch the Thunderbird application. Click "Tools" and then click "Options."
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Click "Advanced" from the list of icons at the top of the window to access advanced configuration options.
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Click the "General" tab and deselect "Allow Windows Search to Search Messages." This will block Windows from indexing your emails and keep them out of your search results.
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Tips & Warnings
Thunderbird includes a search utility with the application, so you can still search through your emails without having to use the Windows Search utility.
