Prevent Windows Search from indexing PST contents in Outlook

Running Windows 8.1 with Windows Search, and Office 2013 with more that 20GB in more than 10 PSTs and OSTs, searching becomes very slow after indexing everything. Reindexing has no change. If I exclude Outlook it's very fast.
There is an option in Outlook search ribbon -> Search Tools -> Locations to search. I removed most of the PSTs (accounting for 75% of the contents), but still ALL PSTs and OSTs get indexed (although they won't be searched).
This makes using Windows Search nearly impossible (e.g. searching using the charm thing takes 30 seconds).
How can I have Windows Search index ONLY the PSTs and OSTs that I specifically want?
Is there any configuration, registry stuff or programatic workaround to exclude from indexing (not searching)?
Thank you.
Andy.PT

Hi,
Still, as mentioned above, I don't have such a method to choose which to be included in Indexing and which to be excluded.
The only thing that I find which is close to your request is this:
If the method above isn't helpful in your scenario(as you mentioned), you can try some 3rd-party tools/add-ins to realize a new search function which may meet your request.
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