How to change blinkx settings
Now that you are familiar with using blinkx, it's time to find out about how to change its settings.
Click on the Settings button
on the blinkx search box. The blinkx settings dialog is displayed:

This dialog allows you to change:
- which folders on your computer blinkx uses for desktop searches
- which search engine blinkx uses for web searches
- which result types the blinkx toolbar displays
First you are going to add another folder on your computer for the blinkx desktop search.
- Click on the Add button
underneath the Local folders to index box. A Browse for Folder dialog opens.
- Navigate to a folder whose contents you want blinkx to be able to search.
- Select the folder and click on OK to close the Browse for Folder dialog.
- The folder you have added is now listed in the Local folders to index box:

blinkx can now index the contents of the folder you have added, so that it can display them as results if they are relevant to one of your desktop searches.
Now you are going to remove the folder you added for the blinkx desktop search again.
- In the Local folders to index box, click on the folder you added to select it:

- Click on the Remove button
underneath the Local folders to index box. The selected folder is removed from the list:

blinkx can removes the contents of the folder from its index, so that they are no longer available for desktop searches.
Now you are going to change which web search provider blinkx uses.
- Click on the Change button next to the search engine that you are currently using. A list of available search providers is displayed:

- Click on one of the listed search engines to select it. blinkx will now use this search engine when it executes a web search.
Now you are going to change which result types the blinkx toolbar displays.
- Look at the list of result types in the Channel picker box. Currently all result types are selected:

- Click on the boxes next to the result types From the Web and Video clips. The check is removed from the boxes:

- Open a website (for example, http://news.bbc.co.uk/), and look at the blinkx toolbar:

Website results and video clip results have been removed from the toolbar.
- Return to the blinkx settings dialog, and click on the boxes next to the result types From the Web and Video clips. The boxes become checked again:

- Return to the website you opened and wait until the blinkx toolbar reappears. The toolbar once more displays all result types:

The toolbar displays all result types.
This is it! You have completed the blinkx tutorials and are now an expert user!