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1 answer
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How To Seach file names contain any digit/number In windws explorer,? Or file name contain digits/numbers fall between given numbered range?

I searched on the web & also tried below mentioned linked pages, but I did not get the solution. In Windows Explorer, how to search files whose Names contain any digits or numbers? Or does the ...
0 votes
1 answer
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Windows Explorer Search does not find anything on Pictures, Documents, Downloads folders after manually moving them

Search in C:\Users\Komninos\Downloads not showing any results in Windows Explorer. The quick search is not working for Downloads, Pictures, Documents folders, which are the folders I moved from D:\...
0 votes
1 answer
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Windows 10 Explorer search cant find files

While recently trying to located some lost files, I noticed that my Windows Explorer search was not functioning properly. As a test, I typed in a file I knew existed in a location: C:\Users\USERNAME\...
1 vote
3 answers
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Why search in file explorer finds nothing?

I open a window of file explorer in Windows 10 In the window I can clearly see a file with a name. Let's say [THEfile].txt However, when I write in the search place to the upper right "THE", ...
0 votes
1 answer
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After searching in Explorer, how to get a full path in the address bar?

When I ctrl+f search in File Explorer and click a resulting folder, Instead of the address bar providing a useful path while I'm inside the folder, it instead does the following: What Windows does ...
4 votes
4 answers
20k views

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 ...
0 votes
1 answer
1k views

How can I exclude one or more drives (hard drives) from my search when searching in My PC in an explorer window in Win10 Pro?

I want to search my local hard disks and my removable USB thumb drives while excluding my Google Drive (G:). I'm trying to search using an explorer window using the search box (F3). My location bar is ...
1 vote
0 answers
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Search for a file using the Windows Run Dialog Box

I am attempting to automate a Windows Search for a file name. My method work on several folders; however, it fails on a folder named "part #". My process was to Search for a file within the ...
0 votes
0 answers
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Is there a way to hide a folder from searches but can still be searched manually?

I am working on a number of manuscripts in Word using Windows 10. I have taken to storing older versions of these manuscripts in a particular folder labelled "Older Versions of Manuscript" ...
0 votes
1 answer
3k views

How can I search Windows 10, excluding folders yet including zips?

I use a search string to generate statistics of documents processed, I used to use the -kind:folder but then realized it was blocking .zip files. Here are my requirements: YES include .zip files in ...
1 vote
1 answer
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Win 10 search box in explorer: how to restrict search to only filenames

When I search for a keyword "foo" by typing it in the Windows 10 File Explorer search box (top right corner) in a folder it seems to search (correct me if I am wrong please!) within ...
0 votes
2 answers
1k views

Search box grayed out in Windows explorer

A long time ago, I ran some scripts from the web to increase the privacy of my Windows 10 installation. Among other things it disabled Cortana. Except for multiple error messages in the event viewer ...
4 votes
1 answer
7k views

Searching items in a folder by content does not search in .json files?

Using the "Content:" search filter under windows 10, i am able to find files that contain a string, this worked for me with excel tables, word docs and simple txt files. However, now i am trying to ...
1 vote
2 answers
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Windows: Search whole computer for a file even if the type is not standard

To test capabilites of the file search option in Windows Explorer I created a sample file named sample_code.h and sample_code.cpp on my disc with some text in them so they are not empty. Now I try to ...
5 votes
1 answer
23k views

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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