How to remove "Others" category from OS X Spotlight?

Hi, guys.
I use Spotlight only to launch applications, so in Spotlight PreferencePane I have only Applications box checked (image 1). In Privacy Settings, I have blocked Spotlight from looking on any visible folder except the Applications one (image 2). Here there are two screenshots of my PreferencePane Spotlight settings, for you to check what I say.
However, the behaviour of Spotlight is strange on OS X 10.9, because it shows a category called "Others", which includes many useless files and folders, (such as .html, .sav, .webloc, .bundle...) that don't fit in any other category. I have re-indexed Spotlight, I have changed almost everything on the PreferencePane and the odd behaviour is still there. Here there are more screenshots, in which you can see the "Others" category marked with red ("Altres" in my language) whetever it is the App I'm looking for. This didn't happen before installing Mavericks, I guess.
Any suggestions?
Thank you all.

Hi,
I had the same problem but didnt want to select all the folder that was giving me some unwanted results.
Here is my steps :
install Xcode
open terminal and typed :
open ~/Library/Preferences/com.apple.spotlight.plist
Then Xcode open and u can see the com.apple.spotlight.plist file.
Here is mine :
As you can see, i added item 16 as a "Dictionary"... with "enabled" as a NO boolean and name a String containing  "OTHER".
This should work in any languages.
Hope this helped.

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