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Change size of Windows 7 Explorer most recently used searches list
Is it possible to increase the size of Windows 7 search MRU list?
Below is URL to screenshot which describes what I'm saying about.
The default 3 items in list is not always convenient. I know about '...
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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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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 ...
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How to search Windows Explorer for file names containing invalid characters?
I have downloaded over 10,000 files and need to move them to a different folder than my downloads folder. Unfortunately, these files have miscellaneous names, and some of them contain invalid ...
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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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How to make Microsoft Windows 7 Search display the actual Folder Location instead of some cryptic path?
I am very dissatisfied with the search offered by Windows 7 Explorer. Let me first explain what happens, and what I expect:
I have a folder c:\test. When I use explorer-search and search for test, ...
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Search for unique file in two or more folders
Is there a way to search for single/unique files in two or more different folders in windows? is there an add-on/app for this? (Don't understand how to run code)
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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", ...
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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:\...
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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 ...
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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" ...
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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 ...
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How to force Windows to search a folder again?
I did a search in Windows 10 File Explorer for files containing a specific string in the file name. Then I either renamed or deleted the files it found. When I searched the same string again to see ...
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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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Explorer Search does not work
Look at how I can't find a file that is clearly in the folder as I'm looking at it.
Folder: C:\Users\dasbest\Documents\Portable Apps\FL Studio 8\Plugins\VST-old
Filename: Prophet-V2.dll
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