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How to find (unindexed) files in the current folder in Windows 10 File Explorer?
When in a folder in Windows 10, using the search panel to find files, one would expect an ad-hoc search of the file names in the current folder.
However, Windows only seems to find files that have ...
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FileExplorer syntax for file search when filename contains hyphens
Using the Win 10 FileExplorer, I want to find "myfile-2015-info.pdf" while knowing for sure only "myfile-2015". If I enter file:myfile it is in the (long) list, so I keep typing and file:myfile-2015 ...
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Export content from Windows explorer search
When I do a search in Windows Explorer (Windows10) in a directory with many PDF documents I get the results giving me in the first column the file name and in the second column the path and a a ...
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How do I do a search in File Explorer that includes subfolders of zip archives?
In File Explorer, I can enter search terms in the upper-right search box to search the current folder and all subfolders. I can also navigate the folder tree of zip archives like any other folders. ...
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Windows 10 default search location in folder
When you use search in Windows 10 File Explorer in a folder, it includes all subfolders by default. You can disable it for every search to ignore subfolders, but how can I make it default?
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Windows 10 Folder Search Sucks
when i do a search in a windows 10 folder using file explorer and the box at the top right, I get a list of matching files and folders.
All well and good, but if I open up one of those folders and ...
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Windows file explorer crashes while searching a certain term in the search bar
While searching for a file named "advance" in a network drive, the file explorer crashes and closes automatically. This happens only when the search reaches a particular folder in the directory which ...
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How to search Windows 10 for ANY occurrence of a word?
I never heavily used the search feature on Windows 7, so I don't know if the issue persists on versions outside of 10.
I'm trying to search through a lot of files using Windows' file browser search ...
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Windows 10 File Explorer | bad characters in file names in search results
I using Win10 (upgraded from Win7 a few weeks ago) in English, and Hebrew as added supported language.
Basically everything is fine with Hebrew files names, folder names and so on, except for one ...
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Windows 10 Search not working
I used WinKey + S very much on Windows 8.1. Now when I installed Windows 10 it seems to be a problem with the search indexer. It can't find anything but some 'settings' items.
Things i've tried:
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How to disable automatic search in Windows Explorer?
One thing I like in Windows XP is the ability to type the first character of a folder or file, and Explorer instantly jumps and highlights the first matching item. Windows 7 replaces this feature with ...
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