Windows Search - Configure and Use

    Windows Search - Configure and Use

    Windows Search - Configure and Use

    How to configure and fully utilize Windows 7 Search
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    Setting Up Windows Search

    There is a great deal of confusion among people as to whether or not Windows Search works or not, and an even greater number of people that just don't use it because they don't know how, or are not aware of its advanced facilities. The intention of this tutorial is to show you just how advanced Windows Search is, and how easy it is to fully utilize this great feature of Windows 7 to its full potential by performing basic searches, and how to make full use of the Advanced Query Language.

    Opening Indexing Options
    1) Click the Start Orb
    2) Type "index" (without quotes) in the search box
    3) Click "Indexing Options" in the search results


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    Finding and opening Indexing Options

    4) The Indexing Options window shows you the status of the indexer, and provides command buttons that you can use to modify options


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    Indexing Options

    Modifying Search Locations
    The easiest way of adding a folder, and all associated subfolders, to the index is to add it to a Library. Sometimes, however, you want to add a drive or folder to the index, but don't want to include it in a library.

    1) Open Indexing Options as shown in "Opening Indexing Options" above
    2) Click the "Modify" button to open the "Indexed Locations" window


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    Indexed Locations showing which drives are indexed.


    3) Click the boxes in the "Change selected locations" list to add (checked) or remove (unchecked) a drive from the index.
    4) If you want to exclude a specific folder, you can expand the list by clicking the arrows at the left of a folder name to browse for a folder. Then simply remove the checkmark from the folder you want to exclude.


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    Indexed Locations showing a folder being excluded[/SIZE]


    5) When you have made the required changes to the indexed locations, click the "OK" button.

       Information
    Even if you uncheck and re-check your system drive C: in an attempt to have it fully indexed, the following folders will always be excluded:
    C:\programdata\
    C:\Users\Default\AppData
    C:\Users\[YOUR_USERNAME]\AppData
    C:\Windows



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    Advanced Options
    The default settings for Windows Search are sufficient for most users, but sometimes you need to access the advanced options to improve search results. Here are some advanced indexing settings you can change.

    1) Open Indexing Options as shown in "Opening Indexing Options" above
    2) Click the "Advanced" button to open the "Advanced Options" window.

    Index Settings
    File Settings
    The two options that are available to you here allow encrypted files to be indexed, and how similar words are treated. If either of these two options are changed, the index will be rebuilt, which can take a long time and may cause incomplete search results until complete.


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    Advanced Options - Index Settings

    Index encrypted files
    If you add encrypted files to the index and you're not using full-volume encryption for the location of the index, encrypted data from your files—for example, text from an encrypted Microsoft Word document—will be added to the index. The index is obscured so that it's not easily readable if someone tries to open the index files, but it doesn't have strong data encryption. If someone were to gain access to your computer, they could extract your data from the index. Therefore, the location of the index should also be encrypted to help protect your indexed data.

    Treat similar words with diacritic as different words
    If you commonly use diacritics (small signs added to letters to change the pronunciation of words) in your file and folder names, you can configure the index to recognize words with diacritics differently. By default, Windows recognizes diacritics according to the language version you are using. If you change this setting, all diacritics will be recognized.
    Troubleshooting
    Not everything works as smoothly as we'd like, and sometimes things go wrong. If the Windows Search Index for whatever reason becomes corrupted, you may notice that search results don't update quickly enough, or displays files that have long since been deleted.

    If this happens, you will need to rebuild the index by clicking the Rebuild button.

    Rebuilding the index can take anything from a few minutes to several hours to complete, depending on settings and the number of files that need to be indexed. It is best to issue the Rebuild command at a time when you will not be using the computer, because any kind of user activity will cause the rebuild to take longer. Leaving the computer on overnight at least once is the best choice.


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    Once the index is properly initialized, it update very quickly whenever you save a new file or make changes to existing ones.

    Index Location
    If you need to free up space on a hard disk, you can change the location of the index. If you change this location, the Windows Search service will automatically be restarted, and the change will not go into effect until the restart is complete.
    1) Click "Select New"
    2) Select a new location for the Index, which should be a location that exists on a non-removable drive formatted with the NTFS file system.
    3) Click "OK"
    File Types
    The File Types tab of Advanced Options allows you to set which files are indexed, and how. Even though there are two options available to you when you select a file type in the list, you should avoid changing them unless you have reason to do so:

    Index Properties Only
    Only standard metadata for the selected file type will be indexed by the "File Properties Filter", and varies depending on the file. Generally the properties of a file as shown in the Details tab of a file's properties will be indexed.


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    File Properties Details




    Index Properties and File Contents
    The true power on Windows Search lies in its ability to not only search the metadata of a file, but it's contents as well. The default for most file types is to have only their properties indexed, and indeed not all file types (such as videos, programs, pictures or other binary files) are suited to having their contents searched. By selecting the "Index Properties and File Contents" option for a file type, you can have Windows Search use the "Plain Text Filter" to allow for the contents of a file to be indexed also.


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    Advanced Options - File Types




    For example, as shown in the above screenshot, I've set Windows Search to index the contents of PAS files, which is a source code file for programs that I am writing, and is essentially a plain text file. I can now search my Programming libraries for the name of a code unit by searching for a function name or string contained within it, even if I don't remember the name of the file:


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    Searching for a phrase within a file indexed with the Plain Text Filter




    It is possible to index the contents of some binary files, but also only if an appropriate IFilter has been installed. An IFilter is a plug-in that allows Windows Search to index different file formats so that they become searchable. Without an appropriate IFilter, contents of a file cannot be parsed and indexed by the search engine.

    Most major software, such as Microsoft Office or Adobe Acrobat Reader, will install an appropriate IFilter for their associated file types, allowing them to be indexed.

    [info2]If you are using a 64-bit version of Windows 7, you cannot use a 32-bit IFilter.[/info2]

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    Some software installs a custom IFilter for their files




       Note
    By default, the following file types are indexed as text:
    .a, .ans, .asc, .asm, .bas, .bat, .bcp, .c, .cc, .cls, .cmd, .cpp, .cs, .csa, .cxx, .dbs, .def, .dic, .dos, .dsp, .dsw, .ext, .faq, .fky, .h, .hpp, .hxx, .i, .ibq, .dl, .idq, .inc, .inf, .ini, .inl, .inx, .jav, .java, .js, .kci, .lgn, .log, .lst, .m3u, .mak, .map, .mdb, .mk, .odh, .odl, .pl, .prc, .rc, .rc2, .rct, .reg, .rgs, .rul, .s, .scc, .sol, .sql, .tab, .tdl, .tiff, .tlh, .tli, .trg, .txt, .udf;udt, .usr, .vbs, .viw, .vspscc, .vsscc, .vssscc, .wri, .wtx


       Note
    By default, the following file types are excluded from the index:
    .386, .aps, .bin, .bk1, .bk2, .bkf, .blf, .bsc, .btr, .cat, .cfg, .cgm, .chk, .ci, .crwl, .cur, .dat, .dbg, .dct, .dir, .dl_, .el, .evt, .ex_, .exp, .eyb, .fnt, .fon, .ghi, .gthr, .hqx, .icm, .idb, .idx, .ilk, .imc, .in_, .ini, .inv, .ipp, .jbf, .lib, .local, .log, .log1, .log2, .m14, .mac, .man, .manifest, .map, .MAPIMail, .mmf, .mui, .muimanifest, .mv, .ncb, .obj, .oc_, .ocx, .onecache, .onetoc, .onetoc2, .ost, .pch, .pdb, .pds, .pf, .pic, .pma, .pmc, .pml, .pmr, .pst, .res, .rmp, .rpc, .rsp, .sbr, .sc2, .sit, .sr_, .sy_, .sym, .tlb, .tlh, .tmf, .tmp, .ttc, .ttf, .ufm, .vbx, .vxd, .wll, .wlt, .xbm, .xix, .z96, .ZFSendToTarget



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    Using Windows Search
    There are two ways of searching for files on your computer - the Start Menu and Windows Explorer:

    Start Menu Search
    In Windows 7, the Start Menu was adapted to include a search box that can be used to search for both programs or files, the most common use of which is to locate items in the Control Panel or the Start Menu itself. To use it, simply click the start orb and begin typing your query. For example, to quickly find all Control Panel options relating to Networking, do the following:
    1) Click the Start Orb
    2) Type "network" (without quotes)
    3) Other results, such as file or folders stored on your hard drive, may also be displayed in the Start Menu Search. To view such results in Windows Explorer, click "See more results".
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    Using the Start Menu to search for Network related control panel items


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    Opening Start Menu search results in Explorer




    Windows Explorer
    Global Search
    Windows Search can be started by using the <WINDOWS_KEY>+<F> shortcut to open the Search window, wherein you can immediately begin typing your query, which will be executed across your entire index.

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    Windows Search started using the shortcut key




    Constrained Search
    Windows Search can be initiated from any Explorer window, by simply clicking on the search bar in the upper right corner of the window and starting to type.

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    Windows Explorer search




    [tip2]If you don't like to use the mouse, the Windows Explorer search box is also quickly accessible by pressing the <F3> key.[/tip2]

    Using Windows Search from within Explorer in this fashion will restrict searches to the current folder or library, and all associated subfolders. For example, if I'm currently browsing "F:\Documents", and begin a search for "experience", I'll get the following results:

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    Windows Explorer Search restricted to "My Documents"




    But the exact same query initiated from "F:\Pictures" will yield entirely different results:

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    Windows Explorer Search restricted to "My Pictures"




    Advanced Search Techniques
    Now that you are familiar with the basic usage of Windows Search, it's time to learn some of the more advanced features that it offers.

    Searching for Common File Types
    Searches often return more results than are desired, and locating the exact file in the search results can be almost as hard as trying to remember which folder it's in:

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    Search sometimes returns more results than are necessary




    Windows Search is fortunately aware of the file types most commonly found on a computer, and provides a way for you to filter searches down to only those specific files. As shown in the above screenshot, a search for the word "experience" returned 218 results. But I'm only looking for text based documents, so the first few results are irrelevant.

    In order to filter the results, I'll change my search query to experience kind:docs to only search for documents:

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    Filtering search results using Kind




    Using kind:, I was able to reduce the search results from 218 to 80, a far more manageable number, and therefore easier to find the file I am looking for. It should be noted that the kind: filter is nonspecific, as the results it returns often cover more than one file type.

    As seen in the example above, kind:docs locates several file types, including (but not limited to) the following file types:

    • Microsoft Office Word Document
    • Microsoft Office Excel Documents
    • Adobe Acrobat Document
    • Text Document
    • etc...
    Searching for specific file types
    Sometimes the results of a nonspecific search are undesirable, and you're only looking for a particular type of document. Changing the query to experience type:word will restrict the results to show only Microsoft Word Documents:

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    Finding only Word documents




    And the search results are reduced again, this time returning only 8 files in the list.

    The type: filter makes use of the type description for a file as displayed in Windows Explorer details view, and therefore does not require you to remember file type extensions. For example type:office will find all files with the "office" in the type description:

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    Finding all "office" documents




    File Properties
    Windows Search will include in its index only standard file metadata, and varies depending on the file. In most cases, the properties of a file as displayed in the Details tab will be indexed:

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    Only standard file metadata is indexed




    The above properties screenshot for an image file shows several properties, including "Title", "Subject", "Rating", "Tags", "Comments", "Width" and "Height", all of which can be utilized to great effect in when executing searches.

    For example, if your desktop resolution is set to 1600x1200, you will use width:1600 height:1200 to search for a desktop image that will exactly fit this display size without being distorted:

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    Finding pictures that exactly match 1600x1200




    If you use either Windows Live Photo Gallery or another 3rd party program to organize your photos, and make use of the tagging facilities, then you can classify your photos according to the applicable event. For example, tag:london will find all pictures that contain the word "london" in their tag:

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    Finding all pictures tagged with the word "london"




    Compound Searches
    Windows Search does not limit you to using a single filter or query, and provides several methods of combining queries to build complex searches using NOT, OR and AND. These keywords are often referred to as Boolean Operators.

    [note2]When using either of these operators as explained below, they must always be typed in uppercase. For example, type:office NOT type:word is supposed to return all files containing the word "office" but not "word" in the type description[/note2]
    NOT
    The NOT operator is used to exclude particular results from the list. For example, type:office type:word will display only those files that contain both the words "office" and "word" in their type description:

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    Finding all Office Word documents




    If the NOT operator is included and the query changed to type:office NOT type:word, then all files containing "Office" in their type description will be displayed, except those containing "word":

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    Finding all Office documents, except Word

    OR

    The OR operator is used to combine queries. For example, type:text OR type:adobe will find all file with either "text", "adobe", or both words in their type description:

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    Finding either Text or Adobe files




    AND

    AND is the default operator for combining queries, and can in most cases be completely excluded. For example, type:office AND NOT type:word is the same as type:office NOT type:word and will return identical results:
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    The use of the AND operator is optional

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    Boolean operators must be used in all uppercase

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    Radically different results are returned if Boolean Operators are not in uppercase.



    Quotation marks
    Quotation marks are used by Windows Search to combine two or more words together in order to have them treated as a single word. For example, if I want to search for pictures pertaining to a World War, I'll use tag:world war, which will return the following results:

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    Searching for World War pictures




    As you can see, the first few results have nothing to do with a World War, so to exclude them from the search I'd change the query to tag:"world war", which would yield the correct results that I am looking for:

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    Searching for Word War pictures




    Parenthesis
    As with quotation marks, Parenthesis is used by Windows Search to combine search terms together, but unlike quotation marks, terms are not treated as a single word. For example, the query tag:history september is intended to find files pertaining to the September 11th, 2001 terrorist attacks. As can be seen from the results below, I also got results relating to World War 2:

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    The above query did not work as intended, because Windows Search interpreted it as meaning to find all files with a "history" tag, and any other property containing the word "september". If I change the query to tag:(history september), then Windows Search will locate files with tags containing both words:

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    Parenthesis are also used to combine search queries to allow for more complex fine-tuning of the results. For example, tag:general NOT tag:indoors OR tag:outdoors will locate all file containing the tags "general" or "outdoors", but not "indoors":

    Windows Search - Configure and Use-use_search_image10_brackets3.jpg


    If I change the query to tag:general NOT (tag:indoors OR tag:outdoors), then I'll get the desired results of all files tagged with the word "general", but files tagged with either "indoors" or "outdoors" will be excluded from the list:

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    Numbers
    Windows Search, when executing simple searches, doesn't know the difference between numbers and letters, and treats numeric entries as both, as is evident in a simple query for 1920, which returns results from the filename, width and height properties, highlighted in yellow in the following screenshot:

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    Searching for 1920




    Files contain various numeric properties, and Windows Search keywords treats such properties as numbers. For example, if I change the above query to width:1920, then the results change to show only those files whose width exactly match 1920 pixels:

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    Finding pictures that are 1920 pixels wide.




    Windows Search also makes it possible to find numbers using Boolean operators < (less than), > (greater than), <> (not equal to), <= (less than or equal to) and >= (larger than or equal to).

    The query width:<1920 will find all files whose width is less than 1920:

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    Finding files whose width is less than 1920 pixels




    The query width:>=2600 will find all file whose width is either equal to, or exceeds, 2600 pixels:

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    Finding images with a width larger than or equal to 2600 pixels




    Dates
    Dates are handled differently on each computer according to the regional settings you have applied. If, for example, you've set you short date format to "dd/mm/yyyy", then Windows Search will expect dates to be entered in the same fashion. For example, the query date:??10/29/?2010 fails because my date settings are different:

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    Date search fails, because format of date incorrectly typed

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    Windows Search requires that date entries matching your short date format are used.




    Fortunately, Windows Search makes it very easy for you to enter dates correctly, because when it detects that you are attempting to enter a date, it provides a handy drop down box that you can use to select an appropriate date:

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    Windows Search detects when you are trying to enter a date




    Selecting 29 October 2010 in the date drop down box creates the query date:?29/?10/?2010 and returns the following results:

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    Search for file created on 29 October 2010




    The date drop down also allows you to quickly and easily select a range of dates by dragging with the mouse:

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    Searching for a range of dates




    The date: operator is a global operator similar to kind:, because it will search for all possible date types, including Created, Modified and Taken. You can search for when a particular file was modified by using the datemodified: operator. For example, datemodified:4/?12/?2010 will locate all files that where modified on 4 December 2010:

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    Finding files modified on 4 December 2010




    Saving Search Queries
    Some search queries you create will be simple in nature, and others will be more complex for specific results. For example, the query kind:pics datecreated:20/11/2010 width:1920 tag:swimsuits will return the following results:

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    A complex search to find wallpapers created on 20 November 2010




    Remembering the exact terms used for creating a complex search isn't easy, but Windows Search provides for you an easy way of saving it's search queries to be used again. Clicking the "Save search" button on the Explorer toolbar will open the Save As dialog where you can type a meaningful name for the search that is easier to remember:

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    Saving a complex search




    The search will be saved to the Favorites navigation pane of Windows Explorer, for easy one-click access:


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    Reusing a previously saved complex search


    Windows Search Reference
    Now that you are familiar with the basics of Windows Search, you might be wondering how you can be even more efficient when it comes to finding files and e-mails on your PC. Advanced Query Syntax (AQS) can help you do just that. Using AQS, you can quickly define and narrow your searches for even more targeted results.

    You can narrow your searches using a variety of keywords, or search parameters, which can restrict your query to specific locations, specific file types or properties within those types, or specific "file kinds".

    The tables below give you an overview of additional syntax that can be used with Windows Search, including the properties that can be added to your search terms to narrow and refine your results.

    Common file kinds

    Users can also limit their searches to specific types of files, called file kinds.

    No code has to be inserted here.


    Boolean Properties
    Search keywords and file properties can be combined to broaden or narrow a search with Boolean operators:


    No code has to be inserted here.


    Dates

    In addition to searching on specific dates and date ranges using the date, datecreated or datemodified operators described earlier, Windows Search allows relative date values:

    Days
    today, tomorrow, yesterday, earlierthisweek, monday, tuesday, wednesday, thursday, friday, saturday, sunday

    Weeks
    thisweek, lastweek

    Months
    nextmonth, lastmonth, pastmonth, earlierthismonth, january, february, mearch, april, may, june, july, august, september, october, november, december

    Years
    alongtimeago, earlierthisyear, lastyear, pastyear




    Common File Properties

    Many of these properties are common to all file kinds.

    No code has to be inserted here.


    Documents

    These are properties common to documents, and is commonly used together with the kind:docs operator.

    No code has to be inserted here.


    Presentation

    These are properties common to presentations, and is commonly used together with the kind:presentations operator.

    No code has to be inserted here.


    Pictures

    These are properties common to pictures, and is commonly used together with the kind:pics operator.

    No code has to be inserted here.


    Music

    These are properties common to music files, and is commonly used together with the kind:music operator.

    No code has to be inserted here.


    Videos

    These are properties common to videos, and is commonly used together with the kind:videos operator.

    No code has to be inserted here.


    Contacts

    These are properties common to contacts, and is commonly used together with the kind:contacts operator.

    No code has to be inserted here.



    Communications

    These are properties common to communications, and is commonly used together with the kind:communications operator.

    No code has to be inserted here.


    Calendar

    These are properties common to calendars, and is commonly used together with the kind:calendar operator.

    No code has to be inserted here.





    External Resources




    This tutorial was created using information from the following websites:





  1. Posts : 5,056
    Windows 7 x64 pro/ Windows 7 x86 Pro/ XP SP3 x86
       #1

    Excellent work! Cant rep you...need to spread the love. Really comprehensive.
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  2. Posts : 17,322
    Win 10 Pro x64
       #2

    Great info and walk through!
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  3. Posts : 77
    Win 7-32, XP Pro-32
       #3

    Excellent and thorough coverage. I've grown to depend on Windows Search where I avoided search offerings in previous versions of Windows.

    I'm suffering from withdrawal shock though. I'm moving to a NAS configuration and have just discovered that I cannot add mapped network drives or UNC names to the list of locations to be indexed.
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  4. Posts : 22,814
    W 7 64-bit Ultimate
       #4

    Well done Peter!
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  5. Posts : 2
    windows 7 professional 32 bit
       #5

    windows search


    Thank you for this comprehensive tutorial
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  6. Posts : 1
    Windows 7 64 bit
       #6

    how can I find ">java<" in a file?


    How can I escape characters in a search, so that i could find a file that has the string
    >java<
    in it? And once I do that, how can I combine that search term with another? Specifically, I know I have a file that has '>java<' and 'recref' in it, but i can never get my search to find it. I have everything indexed.

    In trying to figure this out, searching for things that I know should have results, I've found the following:
    If I search for '>java<' (not including the quotes, of course), nothing comes back.
    If I search for 'java<', then files are found with 'java' in them, not just files with 'java<'.
    If I search for 'java< recref' or 'java<,recref', nothing is found.
    If I search for 'java recref' the right results for that search come back, but of course they are a giant superset of the files I want.
    Trying to escape the > and < with backslashes doesn't work, and using &gt; and &lt; also doesn't work.

    Any suggestions? Thanks!
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  7. Posts : 2
    Windows 7 pro
       #7

    Find image files with SAME width and height


    I wonder if it's possible, somehow, with AQS to find images with equal width and height.

    I tried:

    width:[height:]


    it does not work.


    Any idea ?


    I need to plow thru some 40G image files and pick out any images which are NOT squared.


    Thanks
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  8. Posts : 10
    Windows 7 Ultimate 32bit.
       #8

    Nice article... And pics.
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  9. Posts : 1
    Windows 7 Ultimate x64
       #9

    Are you kidding?


    I don't want to have to learn programming! I just want the search to work. In previous versions of Windows, you could search by type or by date. Very useful. I just want to find a spreadsheet I created sometime in the last half of last year. But I can't do that with this horrible search. Now I read I have to go through all this to get it ready to be searched? Give me a break. How do I go back to Vista? It was awful, but at least the search worked.
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