I have a lot of inactive registered customers from past business and having them show up in the search all the time is a bit problematic. I can't set the inactive customers are guests as that would cause loss of data.
Thanks for the suggestion, I noted it here. You can also map such users with a custom customer role (e.g. Inactive Registered) and then exclude that role from the search.
Thanks for the idea. So, you are saying that I can just add an entry to the nopCustomerRole table and link the inactive contacts to that new entry "Inactive Registered"?