Make windows search remember and search Drive C instead of favorites


  1. SomeUserName
    Posts : 129
    Windows 7 Ultimate 64Bit (SP1)
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    Make windows search remember and search Drive C instead of favorites


    PROBLEM: Whenever I do a search for something from the start menu what I want does not show up. When I click see more results on the start menu search box it opens a new Window, remembers my search term and searches in the favorites folder. ALWAYS. Needless to say what I am looking for does not show in results when windows searches in favorites.

    So I click on Drive C icon and it goes to drive C but clears my search term from the search box in that nbewly opened window. After I type my search again into the search box in the previously mentioned newly opened window, THEN the computer will finally find what I am looking for.

    QUESTION: When I do a search from the start menu and click see more results to open the new window, how can I make the computer to search in the C drive instead of favorites?
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  3. cyanna
    Posts : 259
    windows 7 ultimate x64
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    SomeUserName said:
    it opens a new Window, remembers my search term and searches in the favorites folder.
    This is not standard windows behaviour. How do you know it searches the favorites folder?
    Not a soultion but a workaround: Since you have to click on start, type then click on see more options, have you tried Winkey+E, select whichever part of the computer you want then type?
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