Indexing files without EXIF data?

I know that this question isn't strictly a PSE question but I have looked on the web for an answer without success & I imagine that many other people might have the same problem.
I'm using Windows 7 indexing for searching but when I ask about descriptions for my photo's which are mainly JPEG the results are including the data from the EXIF files as well. There must be some way to have the index show the JPEG name without getting indexing found in these other files. I'm also aware that I can search from within PSE as well.
Any suggestions?

My observations of what is happening is exactly what you are seeing with one exception about the XMP update. My reply that I posted about seeing the XMP file being updated was based on the observation that when I did a File > Write Keyword Tag the time and date changed on the XMP file as seen with Windows Explorer. I also looked inside the XMP file with a text editor and saw the updated comments and tags inside. See this section of the XMP file that shows the comments and tags: ------------ <rdf:Description rdf:about="" xmlns:dc="http://purl.org/dc/elements/1.1/"> <dc:creator> <rdf:Seq> <rdf:li>Baden Smith</rdf:li> </rdf:Seq> </dc:creator> <dc:rights> <rdf:Alt> <rdf:li xml:lang="x-default">Copyright - Baden Smith - All Rights Reserved</rdf:li> </rdf:Alt> </dc:rights> <dc:description> <rdf:Alt> <rdf:li xml:lang="x-default">Fishing boats sailing by our balcony at dawn in Zanzibar</rdf:li> </rdf:Alt> </dc:description> <dc:subject> <rdf:Bag> <rdf:li>Africa</rdf:li> </rdf:Bag> </dc:subject> </rdf:Description> ------------ My original question posted was about the export to JPG and not seeing the camera EXIF info being exported. Do you know if this is configurable or is a bug? Baden

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