Excluding AppData stuff from indexed searches

It seems that the Users\<username>\AppData folder, and its subfolders,
cannot be removed from the index search options. I wonder if that is only
because it is a hidden folder or whether MS had some other reason to
determine that that, a,.., junk, just had to be indexed. Certainly there is
nothing in there that I would want to find from the Start button search. I
mean I use Firefox for instance, so I don't want to see the cache and stuff.
Am I right on this assumption or is there actually a way to exclude that
folder tree after all somehow?

Hello,
If you open control panel -> indexing option -> modify -> all users, and
then drill down all the way to where these files you do not wish to find
live, can you uncheck their parent folder?
Thanks,
Ilia

"Skip Bremer" <f4jock@gmail.com> wrote in message
news:eILoAiRlHHA.596@TK2MSFTNGP06.phx.gbl...

> It seems that the Users\<username>\AppData folder, and its subfolders,
> cannot be removed from the index search options. I wonder if that is only
> because it is a hidden folder or whether MS had some other reason to
> determine that that, a,.., junk, just had to be indexed. Certainly there
> is nothing in there that I would want to find from the Start button
> search. I mean I use Firefox for instance, so I don't want to see the
> cache and stuff. Am I right on this assumption or is there actually a way
> to exclude that folder tree after all somehow?
>