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Can I use wildcards in Windows 8 search?

When using a new Windows 8 search bar: What is the syntax of the search expression? Is it possible to use wildcards like "*", "?" or any other special symbol? For example, when searching with Google ...
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Combine Windows 8 app and settings search? [duplicate]

Possible Duplicate: Is there a way to show all Windows 8 Modern UI search results on one page? Consolidating Windows 8 Search to one Textbox While I've adapted to most things in Windows 8 quite ...
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Windows 8 search for folders?

How is one supposed to search for folders using Windows 8? It seems like Microsoft neglected to add this functionality to the Modern UI... This is a feature that I often use, and was wondering if ...
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Windows 8 isn't searching/indexing secondary hard drives?

I've recently installed Windows 8 on one of three drives (C:), and it's unable to search or index any of the other hdds (A: and B:) where I've stored any user files: music, videos, pictures, etc). ...
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Possible to get Windows 8 Search to look into files other than .txt and .xml?

I'm using Windows 8 Enterprise. I'm a programmer, so I deal with a lot of odd "file types" that are in text. One of these is .xaml, which is basically xml with a different file extension. I'm trying ...
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