How to let Search look only for files & folders

How can I let W7 Search look only for files and folders?

what else would you have it search for??

I hope this is a small answe rto your question.
Here is a short tutorial Microsoft has on using the new search in Win7 for files and folders.
LINK

There's only files and folders to start so what should it search? Or do you mean how not to search text strings in files?

churin said:

How can I let W7 Search look only for files and folders?

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Others will show you how to configure Windows Search. I'm just butting in because this little free program is also nice to use:


Everything Search

It only works for NTFS partitions. But the neat thing is it is hooked into the NTFS journaling(file system tracking used to make sure operations completed) system. Therefore it doesn't need to index your files. It doesn't sit there churning your HD looking at every file. When NTFS file system makes a change, it just hooks the notification and adds it. Way smarter!

Plus it works the same on Vista, Windows7, XP so you don't have to remember which Windows flavor has which quirk. Just use Everything on all of them.

Kari said:

There's only files and folders to start so what should it search? Or do you mean how not to search text strings in files?

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That's exactly what I meant. I want to let the Search look for file or folder whose name matches the search word or includes the search word.

You mean "file:index.dat" ?

churin said:

Kari said:

There's only files and folders to start so what should it search? Or do you mean how not to search text strings in files?

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That's exactly what I meant. I want to let the Search look for file or folder whose name matches the search word or includes the search word.

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With Everything, it runs in the tray. You hit the hotkey and type the substring. All the files with the substring come up in a window. You can open the folder containing the files, drag & drop to copy or move the files to an explorer window etc..

And it's free. I've been using it about 6 or 8 months on 3 OS. Never had any issues.

Thanks for the info.