Home and Office Files include all files on your computer that can be read by Identity Finder. Identity Finder can search more than 200 of the most common file types using its built-in filters and a built-in feature of Microsoft Windows available since Windows 2000 called IFilters. For these filterable file types, Identity Finder can search the file while preserving the format and structure of the file. Additionally, Identity Finder can attempt to extract text from any file. As new, proprietary file types are created that Identity Finder cannot search while preserving format and structure, additional IFilters may be created to search them. If you install any of these additional IFilters, Identity Finder will automatically detect and utilize them for all of your future searches. See Installing Additional Filters for more information. To speed your searching, you can enable searching only common file types or searching only filterable file types.
You can enable searching of Files and Compressed Files by clicking their respective buttons. If enabled, the "Files" and/or "Compressed Files" buttons on the "Where to Search" ribbon will be highlighted orange.