Vista - search wont find files in locations i set to index

For example, i hate going into windows/system32/drivers/etc/ to edit my hosts file.

I went into indexing options, and i added both C: and D: to be indexed. I noticed that C: excluded folders windows and program files, and I removed those from the exclusion. But still whenever I try to search from windows explorer in C: or from the Start Menu, it never finds Hosts. I haven't tried rebuilding the index yet.

Anyone have any advice on how to fix this?

roffler <guest@xxxxxx-email.com> wrote:
Why do you even think you have to? I don't even HAVE such a file
(renamed it to hosts.old) and let it sit there.

That aside, you can create a desktop shortcut to it, then right-click
it and choose to open with notepad as the default, and next click it
will automatically open it with notepad (or your editor of choice)
Richie Hardwick