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Windows-7, Windows Explorer -- Find all files in folders not named debug
Is there an easy was in Windows-7, Windows-Explorer to find all files named .dll in folders not named debug?
I would hope the answer would be somewhat consistent across Windows systems, but that ...
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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 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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Increase size of file path pane in windows search?
In normal file explorer, you can resize columns by dragging them around using the little tab marker type things:
In windows search, you can't do this for some reason! There are no tab markers to drag....
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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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Windows 7 - Searching within file names
Windows 7 Home Premium
64 Bit
I have download an icon set of over 1,000 icons, and all of the files start with "appbar", for example: "appbar.email." In order to find what I'm looking for I need ...
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How can I use Windows Explorer Search to find a file under a specific folder no matter how deep the subdirectories go?
Each of my company's jobs has a unique folder on our Win2k3r2 server. J:\[department]\[folder]. Under each job there are a plethora of folders and sub folders, one being "sales photos". I would like ...
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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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Making a mounted volume searchable
OK, this is something that should be ridiculously easy to do in Windows 7, but it simply doesn't work. All I want to do is find all files with a certain extension within a folder and its subfolders. ...
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Hide the search box in Windows 7 Explorer but not in the Start Menu
Using Windows 7 I want to hide the search box in Explorer but not in the Start Menu.
Is this possible?
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Get Windows 7 to Stop Grouping Search Results by Immediate Parent Folder
Searching in Windows 7 is frustrating, inconsistent, and too different from in XP. One of the most egregious problems is that it insists on grouping search results by the immediate parent of items. ...
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Windows 7 search for file with a special character in the file name?
I'm trying to find files in Windows 7 that have a parenthesis in the file name.
However, when I type ( or *(* or "(" or *"("* I get either nothing or every file.
Microsoft's "advanced query syntax"...
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Getting Windows 7's Explorer to display search box without enabling Windows search
I want to get the search box back in Windows 7 without having to enable the Windows Search service. Is there a registry key to make it behave like in Vista, so I can just do searches on the fly ...
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