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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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Moved file to Music library in Windows 7, where did it go?
I was in the folder for my user name, the one with subfolders of My Documents, My Pictures, My Videos, etc. I was using a search to locate certain family videos to make a DVD. I clicked on a file ...
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The fastest disk search possible [closed]
I currently have windows indexing service and no other disk search/indexing program installed.
I want the indexing software to load the entire index database into RAM
Is there any way to make windows ...
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Windows Explorer file search returns blank items
When searching for files on a network drive through Windows Explorer sometimes the results come back with empty blank spaces (as shown by the yellow arrows in the screenshot below) strewn throughout ...
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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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How to find files older than x days on Windows using Advanced Query Syntax (AQS)?
You can find files older than this week using
datemodified:< this week
but
datemodified:< 7 days
does not seem to work.
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Windows Explorer Bug? Why is Windows Explorer Search Box not recognizing the character “R” for a set of file names?
So this is a case of curiosity more than anything.
I am in the process up loading images for a very large number of collegiate products from a certain vendor. Part of this process includes grabbing ...
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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 search multiple file types from Windows Explorer search box?
I would like to use the Windows Explorer Search box to search for multiple file types.
Is there any supported syntax to do so?
I tried:
*.docx *.xlsx
*.docx, *.xlsx
*.docx; *.xlsx
*.docx or *.xlsx
*...
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Can Windows Explorer's search-as-you-type speed be modified?
What I'm referring to, is in Windows/File Explorer, if I were to type a letter, "B" for example, it would jump to the first available file/folder starting with a "B".
Then, if I was fast enough, I ...
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Windows explorer search on file extension length
I have a client who was recently victimized by CTBLocker. The ransomware has been removed, and most of the files have been recovered. However, the C: drive is now very full of files created by the ...
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Windows search with specific options
For example, i have two files:
Textfile1.txt
Textfile2.txt
where first file is empty, and second contains string file1
Can I create a search query in standard windows explorer to match Textfile2....
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